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The Latest Breaking News from British Steel

Government documents ‘blow gaping hole’ in its case for Cumbrian coalmine

Michael Gove said UK needed coal to make steel, but business department papers drafted around same time say it will not

The Guardian - UK

Tata Steel boss defends decision to cut thousands of jobs at Port Talbot

TV Narendran says shareholders in Indian-listed firm had grown weary of billions of pounds being spent on plant

The Guardian - UK

Questions raised over British Steel’s finances

Auditors sound warning about ability of firm of 4,500 staff to operate without new funds from Chinese owner Jingye

The Guardian - UK

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Tata Steel to confirm shutdown of Port Talbot blast furnaces, sources claim

Move by Tata could put thousands of jobs in south Wales at risk and end more than a century of steelmaking

The Guardian - UK

‘A golden opportunity’: Port Talbot fights to keep its steelmaking tradition alive

Tata’s plan for greener steel would see a four-year shutdown in Wales but unions and locals are adamant there is another way

The Guardian - UK

Electric arc furnaces: the technology poised to make British steelmaking more sustainable

In a move to embrace sustainable steelmaking, British Steel has unveiled a £1.25 billion plan to replace two blast furnaces at its Scunthorpe plant with electric arc furnaces. This follows the UK government’s commitment in September to invest up to £500 million towards an electric arc furnace at Tata Steel’s…

The Conversation

Large parts of Port Talbot steelworks could be shut under Tata Steel cuts plan

Unions say move could force Tata’s automative steel factory at Llanwern to close, costing 600 jobs

The Guardian - UK

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Iron resolve: steel town unites to fight for its furnaces

As Scunthorpe faces 2,000 job losses in a move to greener tech, MPs and unions fear for workers and a strategic UK industry

The Guardian - UK

Fresh calls to scrap Cumbrian coalmine amid steel industry’s green push

UK’s coal-hungry blast furnaces likely to be replaced, making economic case for mine ‘dead in the water’ says local MP

The Guardian - UK

Fears over jobs as British Steel confirms plans to shut blast furnaces

Unions fear up to 2,000 jobs could be put at risk by the move.

The Independent UK

British Steel to replace Scunthorpe furnaces, putting up to 2,000 jobs at risk

Plant’s Chinese owner says £1.25bn scheme to switch to electric arc furnaces is contingent on £500m in government support

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour and the steel industry: how to forge a better future

Editorial: Visiting Port Talbot steelworks this week, Sir Keir Starmer was right to call for a new deal for a vital sector

The Guardian - UK

Starmer says he will set aside party politics ‘to turn around steel industry’

The Labour leader made the vow as the industry faces painful job cuts as part of the drive to lower emissions

The Independent UK

Sir Keir Starmer vows to put party politics aside to make UK a leader in steel

The Labour leader made the vow as the industry faces painful job cuts as part of the drive to lower emissions.

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Labour promises UK steel industry will be ‘backed not abandoned’

Sir Keir Starmer will visit the Port Talbot steelworks on Monday.

The Guardian - UK

British Steel owner preparing to cut as many as 2,000 jobs, report says

China’s Jingye Group said to be considering move as part of switch to using greener electric arc furnaces

The Guardian - UK

Welsh steelworks at breaking point over the cost of cleaning up its act

Time is running out in Port Talbot to decarbonise its operations: at stake is the supply chain for much of Britain’s construction and manufacturing sectors, along with thousands of jobs

Daily Mirror

Steelworkers march on Parliament demanding help to save 'crisis-hit' industry

Hundreds of steelworkers converged on Westminster to highlight the threat to their industry and call on the Government to help the switch the "green steel"

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Keir Starmer blasts 'asleep at the wheel' Tories as he vows to save steel industry

On a visit to British Steel site in Scunthorpe, the Labour leader said a good, secure steel industry is a 'massive prize' - and it would be 'unforgivable for this Government to simply sit it out'

The Independent UK

Starmer: Labour would ‘seize opportunity’ to revive British steel industry

The Labour leader visited the British Steel site in Scunthorpe on Thursday as he pledged Labour support for the industry.

Metal Hammer

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Birmingham Post

Sir Keir Starmer pitches steel plan in Scunthorpe as Labour lays into lack of industrial strategy

Key match-funding pledge on clean investment made as Labour looks to win back steel town

The Independent UK

Labour will back British steel after Tory neglect – Starmer

The Labour leader will visit the British Steel site in North Lincolnshire on Thursday.

Birmingham Post

Belgian rail deal extension delights British Steel

Infrabel signs four-year agreement covering 40,000 tonnes of Scunthorpe steel

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