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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Nina Lloyd

Supplies arrive in UK as Government rushes to save British Steel Scunthorpe site

Coking coal is unloaded at Immingham Port in North Lincolnshire, destined for British Steel at Scunthorpe (Darren Staples/PA) - (PA Wire)

Raw materials secured by the Government have arrived in the UK to keep British Steel blast furnaces burning after a race to save the company’s Scunthorpe plant.

Ministers have taken control of the firm to ensure supplies such as coking coal and iron ore reach the site after talks with its Chinese owner, Jingye, broke down.

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