Race to keep blast furnaces on at Scunthorpe steel plant

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The government and British Steel are working to secure the raw materials needed to keep two blast furnaces on, in a race against time to avoid a permanent shutdown of Britain's last primary steelmaking plant. Treasury minister James Murray said the government is doing "everything we can" to keep the furnaces burning at British Steel's Scunthorpe site. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We're serious about the future of steelmaking in the UK and we have officials on site doing

00:04everything they can to get those raw materials into the blast furnaces to keep them going.

00:09We know we need to keep them going in order to give us the options for the future to have

00:13a bright and sustainable future for steelmaking in the UK.

00:16We have officials who are on site as we speak, they've been there since Saturday when we

00:19passed the legislation in Parliament, making sure we do everything we can to get those

00:23raw materials in place.

00:25And if we hadn't have passed legislation over the weekend, we'd be having a very different

00:30conversation now because the blast furnaces would be closing.

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