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Corus to close in days

Steel production at the Corus plant on Teesside will cease within a week, workers have been told.

The mothballing of the Teesside Cast Products (TCP) blast furnace at Redcar, where about 1,600 jobs are due to be lost, will begin on Friday.

TCP has been at risk since international buyers pulled out of a 10-year contract.

Unions said the site was “still viable” and they would not give up hope that a buyer for the plant could be found.

The mothballing had been due to start at the end of January, but following a meeting with union leaders the firm agreed to extend operations to the end of February.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .