Welsh steelworks at breaking point over the cost of cleaning up its act

At the Port Talbot steelworks on the south Wales coast, two 90-metre blast furnaces dominate the skyline. The plant has loomed over the town since an integrated steelworks was built there in the 1950s. It is the economic heart of the area, capable of producing 5m tonnes of steel a year, employing…

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