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Greybull should never have been able to get its hands on Britain’s steel industry, says STEVE TURNER

YOU would have to have a heart of stone not to feel for British steelworkers right now. 

Twenty-five thousand jobs at risk, families devastated and until this week without even a short-term guarantee of wages or work.

Unite has been working tirelessly, day and night to bring some stability to a difficult and rapidly changing situation, and while we’re relieved to have obtained vital assurances from government that mean mortgages can be paid and families fed for the foreseeable future, we are under no illusions that there is much work still to be done to save the sites that are the backbone of our communities.

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