The threat to our steel industry reveals a difficult truth about local authorities: for all the gains we have made in job creation powers, we are still very limited when it comes to saving jobs.
Just down the road from Newcastle, in Teesside, families have gone through months of torment with the ultimate bad news that the Government will not intervene to save their steel jobs.
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