10 h. ago Thousands of steel jobs secured with £500m Scunthorpe deal despite huge losses in Port Talbot

The UK Government said the announcement 'truly transforms the outlook' of steelmaking in the UK, but thousands of jobs have been lost in Port Talbot with the closure of its blast furnaces

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14 h. ago Thousands of jobs saved and British Steel plant future secured after £500m Network Rail deal

From a £500m rail deal set to rescue British Steel, to Aviva’s £3.7bn Direct Line takeover, surging fossil fuel finance, job cuts linked to NICs, Gareth Bale’s move into football ownership, and Mizkan’s Manchester expansion - here are today’s top UK business stories.

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23 h. ago Thousands of British Steel jobs secured thanks to £500m Network Rail deal

Two months after being saved by the government, British Steel's Scunthorpe plant is celebrating securing a five-year contract from Network Rail to supply 337,000 tonnes of long and short rail

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59 h. ago British politics is in a loop and it's Farage's vision that's stuck on repeat | John Harris

Unlike Keir Starmer and his cabinet, Reform UK’s leader actually understands and exploits the rules of engagement in our digital ageAs so often happens, what Nigel Farage said on a recent visit to south Wales deserved endless pejoratives. It was ludicrous, condescending, half-baked, opportunistic and plain stupid. Even he didn’t seem to know exactly what he wanted. At a Reform UK press conference in Port Talbot, he seemed to make the case for reopening the town’s steel-making blast furnaces, before admitting that “it might be easier to build a new one”, though he also acknowledged that it would “cost in the low billions” to do so. But he had even more dizzying visions of reopened Welsh mines. “If you offer people well-paying jobs many will take them,” said Farage, “even though you have to accept that mining is dangerous.”The climate crisis, predictably enough, was not worth considering. He also did not offer any opinions about coal-related issues such as slag heaps, land slips, rive...

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5 d. ago Bodybuilder teenager, 15, who jumped off pier in celebration of finishing exams may not have drowned if a lifeguard was present, coroner rules

David Ejimofor, 15, died after getting into trouble during a 'coming of age ceremony' in the water off Aberavon Beach, Port Talbot.

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6 d. ago Inside the new £400m UK train line that will never be used by normal passengers

The new £400million project, in the mountains of Neath Port Talbot, will have miles of railway tracks and station platforms - but it's not for everyday passengers

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8 d. ago Nigel Farage slapped down for 'selling fairy dust' to people of Wales

Reform leader Nigel Farage said he wants to reopen the Port Talbot steelworks in Wales, but is under pressure to say how he would achieve it after failing to give answers today

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8 d. ago Nigel Farage struggles to name an 'inspirational' Welsh person as he talks up Reform taking power in Cardiff

The party leader said that his party was the only real alternative to Labour in the Senedd as he spoke in Port Talbot ahead of elections next May.

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8 d. ago Two more Welsh politicians defect to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

The announcement was made as Nigel Farage delivered a keynote speech in Port Talbot

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8 d. ago Live updates as Reform UK leader Nigel Farage makes major speech in Port Talbot

Nigel Farage will lay out his party's plans ahead of the Senedd election in May 2026

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8 d. ago Reopen the pits! Revealed, Nigel Farage's big idea to help save the steel industry in Wales...dig for coal in nearby valleys

In a major speech, the Reform leader will put coal-mining at the centre of the party's plans for reopening the Port Talbot Steelworks if it wins Welsh elections next year.

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1 week ago Youth worker who told vulnerable child 'I could murder a cuddle in bed now, lol, naked' struck off

Francois Hanson was a youth worker at Neath Port Talbot Council when he abused his position supporting an 'extremely vulnerable child' he nicknamed 'chicken nugget', a professional standards hearing was told

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3 w. ago 'It was heartbreaking. Things were breaking down. The pressures we were under were immense'

Graham 'Wasp' Rowland saw the peak and decline of Port Talbot's steelworks on the frontline

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3 w. ago More than £20 million in funding approved for three Neath Port Talbot projects

It is part of a wider £70m funding allocation that has been announced in the past nine months

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3 w. ago Michael Sheen shares emotional message following dad's death

His father was a 'hugely valued regular' of the dementia group in Port Talbot prior to his death and the star has shared a fundraiser to support the cause

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3 w. ago Work set to begin on two major projects in Neath Port Talbot

Both projects were approved unanimously by members at a council planning committee last year

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4 w. ago Friends were pulled underwater as they desperately tried to stop bodybuilder teenager drowning after he jumped off pier, inquest told

David Ejimofor, 15, tragically died at Aberavon beach, Neath port Talbot, on Monday, June 19, 2023 after jumping in to the sea to celebrate the end of his GCSE exams.

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4 w. ago Teenager, 15, said he couldn't swim before jumping off pier and drowning in end of exams celebration, inquest told

David Ejimofor, 15, died at Aberavon beach, Neath port Talbot, on Monday, June 19, 2023, after he'd jumped from the high pier with his friends.

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4 w. ago David Ejimofor inquest hears pals ‘egging boy on’ before he jumped to his death

David Ejimofor was a talented 15-year-old with his whole life ahead of him who died after he was persuaded to jump into the sea off a pier in Port Talbot, Wales

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