London says it acted to prevent the plant’s Chinese owners from closing the plant, threatening jobs and national security.

Britain was edging closer to China, but a dispute at a Chinese-owned steel company in the U.K. may prompt a rethink.

Yet the government has leapt into a sector that has been in decline for five decades, and looks ever less competitive, ...

Britain’s parliament is only recalled at times of national crisis. But when lawmakers were brought back from their Easter vacation last weekend, the cause was not a war, terror attack or the death of ...

Hit by new US tariffs, the European steel industry has been hit by falling demand and intensified competition from Chinese ...

Raw Material Prices Remain Relatively Firm, but Downstream Demand for Finished Products Is Moderate. Mainstream steel mills in Shandong accepted the first round of coke price increases of 50-55 ...

The Government is "confident" it will secure the supply of materials needed to keep the blast furnaces at the British Steel ...

British Steel plans to begin consultations on closing its Scunthorpe blast furnaces after failing to reach a financial ...

Turning off the furnaces would be a "complex, costly nightmare the government wants to avoid", Sky News science correspondent Thomas Moore says.

The government has taken control of British Steel’s Scunthorpe operations but faces a race against time to keep its blast furnaces running. Business ...

More than a dozen businesses offer to help British Steel keep furnaces burning - If the blast furnaces at the Scunthorpe ...

BRITAIN’S last blast furnaces are in line to be nationalised within weeks as the Chinese owners prepare to shut up shop. Sir ...