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.
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