Labour’s climate push risks leaving Scunthorpe behind.

British Steel has said it is continuing to purchase raw materials for Scunthorpe 's coke blast furnaces. In November, following three months of uncertainty over whether it was going to close the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. British Steel was forced to close one of its two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe last year after using the ...

British Steel says no final decisions have been made on its future operations, as reports suggest it is abandoning Teesside furnace plans to build entirely in Scunthorpe. The Financial Times and BBC ...

British Steel also announced it would close blast furnaces in Scunthorpe in 2023, and unveiled plans to roll out a less polluting electric arc furnace. The plans, which are greener but require ...

Two new furnaces are set to be built in Scunthorpe, following talks between British Steel’s Chinese owners and Labour ministers. These would replace British Steel's blast furnaces in Scunthorpe.

with two proposed EAFs now due to be built solely in Scunthorpe. The reports have seen Teesside political figures trade letters, while a British Steel spokesperson said that no final decision has ...

The move would see two such furnaces built at Scunthorpe, in Lincolnshire, rather than one in each location, although British Steel said it had not yet made a final decision. The government said ...

Longs producer British Steel also aims to replace the four blast furnaces at its Scunthorpe site wth electric arc furnace technology. The site is located in North Lincolnshire, and has been a ...

The MP for Scunthorpe has said he is "quietly hopeful" that two new electric arc furnaces will be built at the town's steelworks. Sir Nic Dakin was responding to a report in The Sunday Times ...

Will the government save British Steel? Last year Scunthorpe’s two blast furnaces Queen Anne and Queen Bess became the last remaining primary steelmaking facility in the UK. However there were reports ...

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