Tata employs 7,000 people across Wales including at Shotton and the UK's biggest steelworks ... Both face a challenging world market where the production of steel far outstrips demand.

Shotton, Llanwern, and Caerphilly. Welsh secretary Jo Stevens will announce the immediate fund release on Thursday at her second meeting as chair of the Tata Steel/Port Talbot Transition Board.

Steel itself is not made here but Shotton relies on Port Talbot for base products to make paint-coated products for the domestic appliance market, for example. And here is the irony: Shotton is ...