British Steel: Government races to keep Scunthorpe furnaces burning

Officials are working to deliver essential raw materials to British Steel's Scunthorpe plant, the government has said, as it races to keep its blast furnaces burning.An emergency law rushed through Parliament on Saturday gave the government control of the Lincolnshire site to prevent its Chinese owner shutting it down.The government said work was under way on Monday to obtain the coking coal and iron ore that…