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The Latest Breaking News from Port Talbot

Steelmakers fire up to swap centuries-old reliance on coal for electric arc furnaces

As Tata Steel and British Steel close their polluting blast furnaces, will Labour get behind the switch to more energy-efficient technology – and secure jobs?

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UK will press for job promises in return for Port Talbot investment

New business secretary Jonathan Reynolds confirms that negotiations with owner Tata Steel are continuing

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Tata cancels early closure of Port Talbot furnaces after Unite calls off strike

Steelworks owner says withdrawal of threat of industrial action means it can continue to operate one furnace safely

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Owner of Port Talbot steelworks offers fresh talks as furnaces face closure

Sources say Tata offer is predicated on unions at south Wales site agreeing to suspend future industrial action

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Labour urged to step in over Tata’s plans to close steelworks days after election

Owner of plants in south Wales says it could cease operations at blast furnaces in response to strike action

The Guardian - UK

Tata to close Port Talbot plant early due to strike action

Unite says upcoming walkout at the plant, which was set to close in September, is ‘for the future of the steel industry’

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Tata set to shut down steel plant early because of Unite strike

Company brings forward blast furnace closure and launches legal action against union ballot

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Steelworkers to strike over Tata’s plans to cut 2,800 jobs in south Wales

Unite members in Port Talbot and Llanwern to stage first strike in 40 years, which union says will hit UK operations

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Tata claims steelmaking in south Wales at risk if £500m subsidy is delayed

Shadow business secretary calls on Indian company to restart talks with potential Labour government

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Couple in Wales jailed for series of ‘dine and dash’ offences

Ann and Bernard McDonagh from Port Talbot ‘cynically and brazenly’ defrauded restaurants, says judge

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Tata agrees Port Talbot deal with National Grid despite union criticism

New furnaces will be powered by electricity from 2027 but up to 2,800 workers will be made redundant

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Port Talbot couple admit ‘dine and dash’ offences with £1,000 in unpaid bills

Bernard and Ann McDonagh admit five joint charges of fraud after not paying at four restaurants and one takeaway

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The collapse of Port Talbot’s steelworks is a death knell for industrial, working-class Britain

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

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Tata would ‘push on with Port Talbot job losses even with Labour subsidy’

Exclusive: Sources close to Tata say thousands of steelworks redundancies would still go ahead despite promise of support

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South Wales ‘heading for Thatcher-era shock’ as Port Talbot closures loom

Labour says fallout from Tata decision to close blast furnaces at steelworks will be felt for decades

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‘Am I going to be homeless in June?’: Port Talbot workers fear return to 1980s

Employees believe closure of steelworks’ coke oven will accelerate end of blast furnaces, with loss of up to 2,800 jobs

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Unions condemn Tata Steel decision to shut Port Talbot coke ovens early

Union condemns decision as ‘massive blow’ and comes after firm confirmed closure of blast furnaces by end of year

International Business Times

'I Need To Fight': UK Steelworkers In Fear As Less Pollution Means Less Jobs

In the dim light of a pub in the steel-producing Welsh town of Port Talbot, Jason Wyatt sips his beer, his voice laden with worry.

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Where tourists seldom tread, part 8: five more towns with hidden treasures

Port Talbot, Rochdale, Wick, Croydon and Kettering – we continue our series on places the guidebook writers skip

Woman & Home

Where is The Way filmed? Everything you need to know about this BBC drama's filming locations

Here's where Michael Sheen's The Way was filmed...

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Michael Sheen’s haunting drama about a Welsh steel strike

Sheen stars in and directs The Way, set in his home town of Port Talbot. Plus, Jed Mercurio’s enraging pandemic series. Here’s what to watch tonight

Evening Standard

Callum Scott Howells on BBC drama The Way, coming to the West End, and how he wants to 'do a Ryan Reynolds'

The beloved Welsh actor is following up It’s a Sin with a triumvirate of must-watches, but all he really wants is his own football club

The Guardian - UK

If the government really cared about keeping Britain safe, it would care about Port Talbot and steel

In a precarious world, we can safeguard supplies – and meet net zero too, says Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite

Evening Standard

Who’s who in the cast of The Way: from Michael Sheen to Callum Scott Howells

It’s packed to the gills with Welsh acting talent

Evening Standard

Spooky monks and Michael Sheen murals: behind the scenes of new BBC drama The Way

Sheen's latest project sees him film in his beloved Port Talbot

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