Steel plant gets £1.4 million grant
Business Secretary, Vince Cable, is visiting SSI on Teesside to announce a Government grant to help protect 1800 jobs.
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Steel plant gets £1.4 million grant
Redcar receives another steelmaking boost
£1,400,000 will be awarded to Redcar's steel plant
Read the full storyTeesside awarded millions by Government
A month after Redcar's blast furnace was relit, there's been another boost for steelmaking on Teesside.
The region has been awarded more than £7 million of Government funding - some of which will be put into the chemical industry at the nearby Wilton site.
Vince Cable MP visited the steelworks today and said the share at the blast furnace will go towards training staff and securing jobs.
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Steel plant gets £1.4 million grant
by Julia Barthram
Business Sectretary, Vince Cable, is visiting Teesside steel plant, SSI, to announce a grant supporting 1800 jobs.
Read the full story£1.4million to train SSI workers
The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, is visiting the SSI steel plant on Teesside later today. He will announce a £1.4million pound grant which will be used to train 1,800 employees. The blast furnace was re-lit last month after being mothballed in 2010 with the loss of almost 1,000 jobs.