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Live Reporting

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  1. End of live coverage

    That brings an end to our live coverage of the 1,050 job losses at Tata steel.

    For a comprehensive roundup of today's announcement click here.

  2. Tata board meeting to be held in India

    Quote Message: This restructuring plan from the UK arm of Tata now has to be ratified by the company's board in India. They're expected to discuss it at their next board meeting in Mumbai in mid February from Sarah Dickins BBC Wales Economics Correspondent
    Sarah DickinsBBC Wales Economics Correspondent
    Tata steel works in Port Talbot
  3. Jobs blow 'devastating' for families and communities

    Speaking after Ms Sourby, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Angela Eagle, said the announcement was "devastating news for the workers, their families and the close-knit communities who are affected". 

    Angela Eagle
  4. 'Regret' on further steel job losses

    Business Minister Anna Soubry tells the House of Commons: "It is with regret I find myself having to update the house on further job losses in the steel sector."

    She said the UK government's focus will be on helping workers back into jobs as soon as possible and supporting the steel industry.

    Anna Soubry
  5. Ex-steelworker to hand protest letter to Chinese ambassador

    Ex-steelworker and Neath Port Talbot councillor John Warman has arrived in London where he intends to give a letter to China's ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, in protest at the "huge amount of cheap steel imports from China". 

    He said: "I want him to make a direct appeal to his government. 

    "It's a personal appeal to him, man to man, about the effect it is having on the community. They're almost giving the steel away. 

    "The steel works are the backbone of the economy in this part of Wales.    

    "Everybody knows someone who works there or has a connection with the plant. It's the life-blood of the community."

    John Warman
  6. A site of 'critical importance'

    Gareth Stace, director of trade body UK Steel, said: "This is deeply disappointing news and I am very concerned about the future of the plant and community. This is a site of critical importance to our national industrial infrastructure."

    Gareth Stace
  7. UK government 'will do everything' it can, says Prime Minister David Cameron

    Speaking on a visit to a mosque in Yorkshire, David Cameron said: "This is obviously sad news about the job losses at Port Talbot and elsewhere. We'll work very closely with the company, with the local communities to do everything we can, to get people the training and the assistance they need. And we'll continue to help the steel industry.

    "There is obviously this worldwide glut of overproduction of steel that's affecting countries right around the world but the steel industry has asked us for action on energy prices and we've taken that. They've asked us for action on procuring more British steel - we've taken action on that. They want us to take action within the European Union and we've done that as well but we'll continue to work with them.

    "I want to have a strong British steel industry at the heart of our important manufacturing base."

  8. GMB union spokesman calls announcement 'heartbreaking news'

    Dave Hulse from the GMB union, said: "Once again this is more heartbreaking news for the steel industry and our members. Once again this demonstrates that this government is asleep when it comes to the serious problems that we are facing."

  9. Analysis from Mumbai

    Simon Atkinson from BBC News in Mumbai says steel is one of India's biggest businesses - but has similar problems to those in Wales.

    "Tata is India’s biggest conglomerate, involved in everything from cars to hotels, tea to telecoms, salt to airlines.

    "Steel though is one of its biggest businesses. A city built around it more than a century ago is now home to about 800,000 people.

    "Today Tata Steel has operations in 26 countries. But in nearly all of those markets it is struggling. And the problems it has in Wales – including the falling steel price, sluggish global demand and the influx of cut-price Chinese steel exacerbating oversupply – are also ones it has to grapple with here in India.

    "Just last week a ratings agency downgraded Tata Steel’s Indian business  – because of its slowing of cash flow and plummeting profit.

    "Tata’s management here in Mumbai is in damage limitation mode – and is trying to offload part of its European operations.

    "Cutting jobs – making operations cheaper – might just make that a more attractive business to sell."

  10. Losses in Llanelli

    Tata has confirmed that 15 jobs will be cut at Trostre