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Tata Steel news from Port Talbot and its Trostre works in Llanelli: the switch from blast furnaces to an electric arc furnace, jobs, the grid connection and what it means for the town. More from Port Talbot.

PORT TALBOT: The grid firm that’s late plugging in the furnace says batteries could get the next factories connected sooner

National Grid, Net Zero Industry Wales and the Celtic Freeport will test whether batteries the network switches on and off…

PORT TALBOT: Tata is building its new pickle line in a bay the June fire left without a roof

The fire that burned for two days in June took the roof off the far end of the bay where…

PORT TALBOT: The steel going up beside the station is a £28m carbon lab the council says will bring 95 jobs

Three years after it was announced and two after the furnaces went cold, the SWITCH research hub is finally rising…

PORT TALBOT: Prime Minister chooses steel town for his first official visit to Wales

Andy Burnham is spending Thursday with workers and apprentices in Port Talbot, as the Deputy First Minister uses the visit…

PORT TALBOT: Inside the exhibition documenting a town after steelmaking

Steeling Ourselves pairs Jon Pountney's photographs with residents' own words about what changed when the furnaces stopped. It's at The…

PORT TALBOT: Job help, housing support and a route into green industry under one roof — the youth hub getting a £250,000 boost

Port Talbot's Youth Hub — where 16 to 24-year-olds get jobcentre support, careers guidance and direct links to employers in…

BAGLAN: ‘It was devastating’ — how a redundant Tata steelworker built a new career after Port Talbot closures

Shaun Young spent seven years in Port Talbot's coke ovens before redundancy hit in October 2024. At 47, he retrained…

PORT TALBOT: Town shortlisted for UK Town of Culture — with £3m and a Welsh rival standing in the way

Port Talbot and the Afan Valley are one of 15 towns picked from 398 bids for the first ever UK…

GREEN STEEL: Llanelli firm lands key contract on Port Talbot’s £1.25bn transformation — with work starting on site today

Morganstone — founded in Llanelli and now based in Swansea — will build the structural heart of the steelworks’ new…

GREEN STEEL: Tata warns new UK import rules leave Port Talbot exposed

Tata Steel says the UK Government's final steel import quotas, announced today, do not go far enough to protect domestic…