The Latest Breaking News from British Steel

UK industrial towns offered not only well-paid jobs, but a whole working-class culture. A radical alternative is desperately needed, says former coalminer Keith Gildart

Judas Priest’s new album Invincible Shield has trounced British Steel, Screaming For Vengeance and Firepower in the UK charts

Michael Gove said UK needed coal to make steel, but business department papers drafted around same time say it will not

TV Narendran says shareholders in Indian-listed firm had grown weary of billions of pounds being spent on plant

Auditors sound warning about ability of firm of 4,500 staff to operate without new funds from Chinese owner Jingye

Move by Tata could put thousands of jobs in south Wales at risk and end more than a century of steelmaking

Tata’s plan for greener steel would see a four-year shutdown in Wales but unions and locals are adamant there is another way

In a move to embrace sustainable steelmaking, British Steel has unveiled a £1.25 billion plan to replace two blast furnaces at its Scunthorpe plant with electric arc furnaces. This follows the UK government’s commitment in September to invest up to £500 million towards an electric arc furnace at Tata Steel’s…

Unions say move could force Tata’s automative steel factory at Llanwern to close, costing 600 jobs

As Scunthorpe faces 2,000 job losses in a move to greener tech, MPs and unions fear for workers and a strategic UK industry

UK’s coal-hungry blast furnaces likely to be replaced, making economic case for mine ‘dead in the water’ says local MP