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Blast furnaces are the heart of the steel industry ... Copper is believed to be the first metal discovered and used by humans around 8000 BCE in the Middle East. Initially, copper was found ...
The deputy PM says "nothing is off the table" and would like to see private investment at the Scunthorpe plant.
A colossal squid has been filmed in its natural environment for the first time.
The business secretary has refused to confirm if the government can get the sufficient raw material supplies in time to keep ...
Liz Saville Roberts says the Government does not know how many people have used a fund for retraining redundant workers.
Ministers had taken the unusual step of recalling parliament from its Easter recess after negotiations with British Steel’s ...
Relieved steelworkers at Britain’s last blast furnaces have had the threat of ... The union’s spokesperson said: ‘This should be just the first step to begin the process of nationalisation ...
While it is possible to turn blast furnaces off and on again, Sky News science correspondent Thomas Moore explains it is a "dangerous and expensive process". First of all, there is no switch that ...
Technical challenges associated with shutting down and restarting blast furnaces make the ... to green steel—plans which the company first announced in late 2023. That amount would potentially ...
The UK government has been accused of 'double standards' and has been warned that the people of Wales will not forget what ...
The first is closing Scunthorpe’s operating blast furnaces, steelmaking operations and rod mill by early June. The two other options include either closing the blast furnaces and steelmaking ...