From coking coal to the ‘four queens’, here’s what you need to know about workings of UK’s last two blast furnaces

• British Steel to deploy emergency measures to save furnaces

British Steel is scrambling to find enough raw materials to keep steel production going at Scunthorpe, after the government took control of the plant on Saturday.

If the materials do not arrive in time then the end of production at at least one of the steelworks’ two blast furnaces could come within days.

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