The UK Parliament passed legislation to take control of British Steel, preventing the shutdown of blast furnaces and securing ...

The UK government has taken control of British Steel's plant in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, to prevent it from closing.

The government has offered to buy the coking coal that is essential to keep steel production going at British Steel in ...

“We could not, will not and never will stand idly by while heat seeps from the UK’s remaining blast furnaces without any planning, any due process or any respect for the consequences, and that is why ...

Blast furnaces are the heart of the steel industry, transforming raw materials into molten iron, which is then converted into steel. This process ...

This week, British Steel announced it intends to remain focused on keeping its two blast furnaces running and will end an exploratory process to shut down the campus announced in late March by Jingye ...

British Steel has announced it will not continue with a redundancy process risking 2,700 workers' jobs at its Scunthorpe ...

Britain said on Tuesday it could keep the country's last steel blast furnaces burning for at least the next few weeks after ...

MPs and Lords will return to parliament for a rare Saturday sitting after the prime minister said the future of British Steel ...

British Steel halts plans for up to 2,700 redundancies at its Scunthorpe plant after emergency government intervention ...

The Department of Business and Trade did not comment. Coking coal is a source of fuel in the blast furnace process used to make virgin steel, which is made from iron ore rather than recycled steel.