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Port Talbot and Scunthorpe face same fate as mining communities wrecked by pit closures, steelworkers warn
Protesters in Scunthorpe [Neil Terry Photography]

PROTESTING steelworkers warned today that the communities at Port Talbot in South Wales and Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire face the same fate as mining communities wrecked by pit closures.

Members of union Unite rallied outside job centres in the two communities against plans to slash 2,500 jobs by employer Tata Steel.

Civil Service union PCS, whose members work in the job centres, is supporting the steelworkers’ campaign.

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