Business

The Deputy Prime Minister insisted that the North Lincolnshire site was ‘crucial’ to the industry in the UK.

Hundreds of workers have been on all-out strike for a month, leading to rubbish piling up on the streets.

The two appointments were signed off by the Business Secretary.

Officials from the Department for Business and Trade are already on site in Scunthorpe after the Government took over the running of British Steel.

The strike began on March 11 as part of a dispute over pay.

Last month, WH Smith announced that Hobbycraft owner Modella Capital will buy its high street arm for around £76 million.

If the blast furnaces at the Scunthorpe steelworks run out of raw materials, they can never be turned back on.

The Business Secretary faces a scramble to get enough raw materials to the Scunthorpe steelworks to stop the blast furnaces being turned off.

Most recently, the Government had offered to purchase the necessary raw materials for the blast furnaces, the last primary steel-making facilities in the UK, but this had been met with…