British Steel’s blast furnaces are set to continue running with a delivery of enough raw materials to keep them alight for the “coming weeks” due on Tuesday, the government has said. Coking coal and iron ore from the US will be unloaded at Immingham docks and transported to the Scunthorpe site after a scramble for...
Officials are working to deliver essential raw materials to British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant, the government has said, as it races to keep its blast furnaces burning. An emergency law rushed through Parliament on Saturday gave the government control of the Lincolnshire site to prevent its Chinese owner shutting it down. The government said work was...
The business secretary has refused to confirm if the government can get the sufficient raw material supplies in time to keep the blast furnaces at British Steel running, after it took control of the Chinese-owned plant. Emergency legislation was rushed through Parliament on Saturday to prevent owners Jingye shutting down its two blast furnaces in...
PA Media The prime minister met steelworkers in Lincolnshire shortly after the hearing in House of Commons There was a moment where all they could do was wait. Government officials were holed up in a Premier Inn down the road from British Steel’s steelworks in Scunthorpe and parliament’s work to change the law to allow...
Scunthopre Litter Pickers The waste was cleared from the Everest Playing Fields in Ashby A group of volunteer litter pickers have cleaned a playground of 156 bags of discarded dog poo in one day. The waste was found on the Everest Playing Fields in Ashby near Scunthorpe. One of the refuse collectors, Jayne Eaton, described...
Decisions taken within the next few days will determine whether British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant stays open, the BBC understands. The plant’s Chinese owner, Jingye, has cancelled two cargo shipments of coking coal for the site’s two blast furnaces and it has not yet paid for iron pellets that are scheduled to arrive next week. Without...
Kevin Shoesmith/BBC Kelly Christmas and Sean Robinson fear the closure of the blast furnaces would have dire consequences for Scunthorpe British Steel is launching a consultation that could result in the closure of Scunthorpe’s two blast furnaces, putting up to 2,700 jobs out of a total of 3,500 at risk. BBC News sought reaction from...