It came months after the closure of Tata Steel’s plant in Port Talbot, South Wales, with thousands of workers being made redundant. Since then there have been fears that the blast furnaces at ...

A row is now raging over whether China should be banned from investing in critical British infrastructure, with senior ex-ministers saying the crisis over the plant should be a “wake-up call ...

That raised the prospect that Britain would lose its last plant capable of making high-quality steel from scratch because once blast furnaces are shut down it is difficult and expensive to restart ...

Crucial supplies needed to keep the UK's blast furnaces burning were set to be delivered to British Steel's plant in Scunthorpe today. After stepping in to take control of British Steel over the ...

Ministers have secured raw materials needed to keep British Steel furnaces in Scunthorpe alive amid accusations that the plant’s Chinese owners were poised to let it fail. The materials ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government said Tuesday that it had bought enough raw materials to ...