{"id":76928,"date":"2025-03-27T14:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/thousands-of-jobs-at-risk-as-british-steel-threatens-closure-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:43:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:43:58","slug":"thousands-of-jobs-at-risk-as-british-steel-threatens-closure-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/thousands-of-jobs-at-risk-as-british-steel-threatens-closure-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of jobs at risk as British Steel threatens closure | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Steel is launching a consultation that could see the closure of its two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe, in England, <!--more--> putting up to 2,700 jobs at risk out of a workforce of 3,500.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the blast furnaces were &#8220;no longer financially sustainable&#8221; due to tough market conditions, the imposition of tariffs and higher environmental costs.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC understands British Steel was expecting a \u00a31bn injection of government money to keep the business going, but was offered \u00a3500m.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister&#8217;s official spokesperson said the government had made a &#8220;generous offer&#8221; to British Steel and it would continue to work with the company and its Chinese owner Jingye to secure its future.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Steel #UK #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Steel is launching a consultation that could see the closure of its two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe, in England,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}