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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

The Guardian - UK

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...

Woman & Home

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

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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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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‘Destroying your home town is quite satisfying’: inside Michael Sheen’s explosive Welsh revolution thriller

New TV series The Way sees Sheen team up with documentary legend Adam Curtis and Sherwood writer James Graham – to start a rebellion. The team talk dirt, destruction and civil war

The Guardian - UK

‘Hypocrisy’: Tata builds vast India furnace despite Port Talbot emissions claims

Owner says shutting Welsh blast furnaces will cut emissions, but it is opening a new one in India

The Guardian - UK

Tata’s Port Talbot decision goes beyond Wales and even steel

Where is the analysis that a country of Britain’s size, with an ambition to reboot its energy sector, can do it without virgin steel?

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a betrayal’: Port Talbot anger over Tata Steel’s decision to close furnaces

Local people fear their home will become a ‘ghost town’ and draw parallels with devastated Welsh coal communities

The Guardian - UK

Tata Steel Axes UK Jobs As Industry Forges Green Future

Indian-owned Tata Steel is to cut up to 2,800 UK jobs, it announced Friday, as the industry struggles to finance greener production of the metal.

International Business Times

‘Devastating’: Port Talbot steelworks to shut blast furnaces and shed up to 2,800 jobs

Tata confirms shutdown and unions threaten strikes at the plant amid fury in south Wales community

The Guardian - UK

Port Talbot steelworks owners expected to confirm blast furnace shutdown

Union representatives protest over ‘crushing blow’ to workers and industry, with 3,000 jobs at risk

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‘A golden opportunity’: Port Talbot fights to keep its steelmaking tradition alive

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

The Conversation

Electric arc furnaces: the technology poised to make British steelmaking more sustainable

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…

The Guardian - UK

Unions tell Tata Steel UK steelmaking is at risk if blast furnaces closed

Union leaders make last-ditch attempt to avert job cuts and massive hit to local economy in south Wales

The Guardian - UK

Large parts of Port Talbot steelworks could be shut under Tata Steel cuts plan

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

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Port Talbot workers in limbo as Tata Steel pulls job loss announcement

Staff had been braced for up to 3,000 job cuts and confirmation of the closure of two blast furnaces

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour and the steel industry: how to forge a better future

Editorial: Visiting Port Talbot steelworks this week, Sir Keir Starmer was right to call for a new deal for a vital sector

The Independent UK

Starmer says he will set aside party politics ‘to turn around steel industry’

The Labour leader made the vow as the industry faces painful job cuts as part of the drive to lower emissions

The Independent UK

Sir Keir Starmer vows to put party politics aside to make UK a leader in steel

The Labour leader made the vow as the industry faces painful job cuts as part of the drive to lower emissions.

Evening Standard

Sun, sea and space invaders: Behind Port Talbot's UFO Investigation Club

One of Britain’s dirtiest towns is also a UFO sighting hotspot. A new photo book shows off Port Talbot in all its glory, says Amy Francombe

The Independent UK

Government accused of ‘rushed’ Tata Steel deal that leaves 3,000 jobs at risk

Unions call agreement a ‘disgrace’ and vow to ‘fight tooth and nail’ to save jobs

The Guardian - UK

Tata Steel seals £500m UK support package but big job losses feared

Unions say as many as 3,000 workers could lose posts in long term on back of deal to help decarbonisation plans

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