Government ‘confident’ Scunthorpe furnaces can be kept firing

Maia Davies, Adam Durbin & Emma Rossiter

BBC News

Reuters An aerial view of the British Steel plant in Scunthorpe. Two large brown blast furnaces eject smoke beside a sprawling plant of brown chimneys and pipes, set  against rolling fields in the background.Reuters

Downing Street has said it is “confident” the raw materials needed to keep the furnaces at British Steel’s Scunthorpe site switched on will reach it in time.

The government has been attempting…

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