British Steel staff and civil servants will spend Monday attempting to avert the permanent shutdown of Britain’s last primary steelmaking plant. The company, which was taken over by the Government on Saturday, faces a race against time to ensure it has enough raw materials to keep the two blast furnaces at its Scunthorpe plant burning. #britishsteel #scunthorpe
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00:00Hello, I'm Greg Wright of the Yorkshire Post.
00:04British steel staff and civil servants will spend Monday attempting to avert the permanent shutdown of Britain's last primary steel-making plant.
00:14The company, which was taken over by the government on Saturday, faces a race against time to ensure it has enough raw materials to keep the two blast furnaces and its Scunthorpe plant burning.
00:26Without raised materials such as coking coal and iron ore, the blast furnaces will cool, risking irreparable damage and the end of steel-making in North Lincolnshire Town.
00:38Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds wasn't able to guarantee this would not happen, but said that taking over the plant had given the government a chance to save it.
00:48My name is Greg Wright and I'm the Deputy Business Editor of the Yorkshire Post.