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Lisa Nandy says solution achievable amid fears furnaces are running out of options to secure raw materials

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Crisis talks between the government and the Chinese owner of British Steel have ended with no deal in place, as the Scunthorpe plant races against time to secure the raw materials needed to keep its blast furnaces running.

Jingye, which promised a “new chapter” in UK steelmaking when it rescued British Steel in 2020, said last month the site’s two blast furnaces were no longer financially sustainable, raising fears for the future of 2,700 workers.

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Lincolnshire | The Guardian

Business owners say they are already struggling and furnace closures would make trading worse, but some residents say it’s time to move on

“Everyone is despondent,” said Roj Rahman when trying to sum up the mood of a town where thousands of people could be out of work and 160 years of iron and steelmaking history could come to a juddering end in just a few months.

“The steelworks is the very fabric of Scunthorpe,” he said. “It’s not just the steelworks, it’s all the small businesses associated with it, all the logistics and so on. Anything that happens at the steelworks has a massive, massive, massive impact on this town.”

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Lincolnshire | The Guardian