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Profound challenges for the UK steel industry

Geoff Riley

19th January 2016

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This Channel 4 news report focuses on the planned job losses at the Port Talbot plant in South Wales, where 750 posts will be cut.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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