The UK government has taken control of British Steel's plant in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, to prevent it from closing.

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Steel was first made at Scunthorpe in 1890 and if the closures go ahead, Britain, which in the nineteenth century was the world's biggest steel producer, would no longer have any blast furnaces.