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Race to keep blast furnaces on at Scunthorpe steel plant

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Race to keep blast furnaces on at Scunthorpe steel plant

Race to keep blast furnaces on at Scunthorpe steel plant

The government and British Steel are working to secure the raw materials needed to keep two blast furnaces on, in a race against time to avoid a permanent shutdown of Britain's last primary steelmaking plant.

Treasury minister James Murray said the government is doing "everything we can" to keep the furnaces burning at British Steel's Scunthorpe site.

Report by Kennedyl.

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