THE task force formed to help the 900 Scunthorpe steelworkers facing redundancy was today submitting a multi-million-pound bid for Government aid.
Members of the group - chaired by North Lincolnshire Council leader Liz Redfern - include Tata Steel, UK Steel, Jobcentre Plus, the Local Enterprise Partnerships for the Humber and Lincolnshire and North Lindsey College.
They met at the Civic Centre yesterday to plan a course of action and were this afternoon sending a bid letter to 10 Downing Street...
