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The Latest Breaking News from Port Talbot

Tata set to shut down steel plant early because of Unite strike

Company brings forward blast furnace closure and launches legal action against union ballot

The Independent UK

Steelworkers to strike over Tata’s plans to cut 2,800 jobs in south Wales

Unite members in Port Talbot and Llanwern to stage first strike in 40 years, which union says will hit UK operations

The Guardian - UK

Tata claims steelmaking in south Wales at risk if £500m subsidy is delayed

Shadow business secretary calls on Indian company to restart talks with potential Labour government

The Guardian - UK

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Couple in Wales jailed for series of ‘dine and dash’ offences

Ann and Bernard McDonagh from Port Talbot ‘cynically and brazenly’ defrauded restaurants, says judge

The Guardian - UK

Tata agrees Port Talbot deal with National Grid despite union criticism

New furnaces will be powered by electricity from 2027 but up to 2,800 workers will be made redundant

The Guardian - UK

Port Talbot couple admit ‘dine and dash’ offences with £1,000 in unpaid bills

Bernard and Ann McDonagh admit five joint charges of fraud after not paying at four restaurants and one takeaway

The Guardian - UK

The collapse of Port Talbot’s steelworks is a death knell for industrial, working-class Britain

UK industrial towns offered not only well-paid jobs, but a whole working-class culture. A radical alternative is desperately needed, says former coalminer Keith Gildart

The Guardian - UK

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Tata would ‘push on with Port Talbot job losses even with Labour subsidy’

Exclusive: Sources close to Tata say thousands of steelworks redundancies would still go ahead despite promise of support

The Guardian - UK

South Wales ‘heading for Thatcher-era shock’ as Port Talbot closures loom

Labour says fallout from Tata decision to close blast furnaces at steelworks will be felt for decades

The Guardian - UK

‘Am I going to be homeless in June?’: Port Talbot workers fear return to 1980s

Employees believe closure of steelworks’ coke oven will accelerate end of blast furnaces, with loss of up to 2,800 jobs

The Guardian - UK

Unions condemn Tata Steel decision to shut Port Talbot coke ovens early

Union condemns decision as ‘massive blow’ and comes after firm confirmed closure of blast furnaces by end of year

The Guardian - UK

'I Need To Fight': UK Steelworkers In Fear As Less Pollution Means Less Jobs

In the dim light of a pub in the steel-producing Welsh town of Port Talbot, Jason Wyatt sips his beer, his voice laden with worry.

International Business Times

Where tourists seldom tread, part 8: five more towns with hidden treasures

Port Talbot, Rochdale, Wick, Croydon and Kettering – we continue our series on places the guidebook writers skip

The Guardian - UK

Where is The Way filmed? Everything you need to know about this BBC drama's filming locations

Here's where Michael Sheen's The Way was filmed...

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The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Michael Sheen’s haunting drama about a Welsh steel strike

Sheen stars in and directs The Way, set in his home town of Port Talbot. Plus, Jed Mercurio’s enraging pandemic series. Here’s what to watch tonight

Evening Standard

Callum Scott Howells on BBC drama The Way, coming to the West End, and how he wants to 'do a Ryan Reynolds'

The beloved Welsh actor is following up It’s a Sin with a triumvirate of must-watches, but all he really wants is his own football club

The Guardian - UK

If the government really cared about keeping Britain safe, it would care about Port Talbot and steel

In a precarious world, we can safeguard supplies – and meet net zero too, says Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite

Evening Standard

Who’s who in the cast of The Way: from Michael Sheen to Callum Scott Howells

It’s packed to the gills with Welsh acting talent

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Evening Standard

Spooky monks and Michael Sheen murals: behind the scenes of new BBC drama The Way

Sheen's latest project sees him film in his beloved Port Talbot

The Guardian - UK

‘Destroying your home town is quite satisfying’: inside Michael Sheen’s explosive Welsh revolution thriller

New TV series The Way sees Sheen team up with documentary legend Adam Curtis and Sherwood writer James Graham – to start a rebellion. The team talk dirt, destruction and civil war

The Guardian - UK

‘Hypocrisy’: Tata builds vast India furnace despite Port Talbot emissions claims

Owner says shutting Welsh blast furnaces will cut emissions, but it is opening a new one in India

The Guardian - UK

Tata’s Port Talbot decision goes beyond Wales and even steel

Where is the analysis that a country of Britain’s size, with an ambition to reboot its energy sector, can do it without virgin steel?

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a betrayal’: Port Talbot anger over Tata Steel’s decision to close furnaces

Local people fear their home will become a ‘ghost town’ and draw parallels with devastated Welsh coal communities

International Business Times

Tata Steel Axes UK Jobs As Industry Forges Green Future

Indian-owned Tata Steel is to cut up to 2,800 UK jobs, it announced Friday, as the industry struggles to finance greener production of the metal.

The Guardian - UK

‘Devastating’: Port Talbot steelworks to shut blast furnaces and shed up to 2,800 jobs

Tata confirms shutdown and unions threaten strikes at the plant amid fury in south Wales community

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