Updates on Wednesday 20 January
Sheffield Forgemasters is cutting up to 100 jobs in another blow for the crisis-hit industry.
The company said reduced activity in the traditional oil and gas sector, slowing growth in the global economy, and an international collapse in steel prices, had hit the firm.
Image source, PAThe news comes after Tata Steel announced more than 1,000 redundancies this week.
Police have condemned time-wasting bomb hoaxers, external who caused major disruption at schools across the Midlands.
After the UK recorded its coldest temperatures of the winter so far, -12.4C in Scotland on Tuesday, BBC weather presenter John Hammond explains why it is so cold.
The number of cars on England's roads has risen by 1.6 million since 2011, with almost 600,000 more in the past 12 months alone.
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