Port Talbot
Town and community in Wales
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Port Talbot is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, situated on the east side of Swansea Bay, approximately eight miles from Swansea. The Port Talbot Steelworks covers a large area of land which dominates the south east of the town. It is one of the biggest steelworks in the world, but has been under threat of closure since the 1980s. The population was 31,550 in 2021, comprising about a fifth of the 141,931 population of Neath Port Talbot.
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Reynolds puts finishing touches to £1.25bn Port Talbot deal Ministers are racing to finalise a £1.25bn deal with Tata Steel, the owner of Britain's biggest steelworks, amid fading hopes of a similarly consensual agreement with the industry's second-largest..Sky News - Published | |
PM vows to do 'everything we can' to protect jobs at Port Talbot Sir Keir Starmer has vowed his government will do "everything we can" to preserve jobs at the steelworks in Port Talbot.Sky News - Published | |
Strikes called off at Welsh steelworks after owner changed closure dateA planned strike at the Port Talbot steelworks has been suspended.Sky News - Published | |
Welsh steelworks set to be shutdown early due to strikesMultinational conglomerate Tata is set to shut the Port Talbot steelworks earlier than first announced over strike plans.Sky News - Published | |
Steelworkers' union announces date for industrial action at Port Talbot plantWorkers at Tata's Port Talbot steel plant are set to start industrial action next month, a union has announced.Sky News - Published | |
Port Talbot steel workers to go on strikeHundreds of steel workers are set to go on strike over the proposed closure of Port Talbot's blast furnaces.Sky News - Published | |
Drakeford 'genuinely baffled' Sunak did not call him to discuss Tata job lossesWales's first minister has said he was "genuinely baffled" Rishi Sunak did not call him to discuss plans to support people affected by job losses in Port Talbot.Sky News - Published | |
Closure of Port Talbot steelworks 'will completely smash community to pieces'"It will completely smash the community to pieces".Sky News - Published | |
Thousands of Port Talbot steel jobs axed under taxpayer-funded green shiftMore than 3,000 jobs are to be axed at the country's biggest steelworks, it has been confirmed.Sky News - Published | |
The Welsh club taking kickboxing world by stormA kickboxing club in Port Talbot is making a mark on the sport with three fighters reaching World Championship finals.BBC Sport - Published | |
Steelworkers remain uncertain about future in spite of government supportAt the main roundabout outside Port Talbot steelworks, union reps and those on their lunch break gathered holding a banner: "British Steel - Back It or Lose It!"Sky News - Published | |
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