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'Grim' September ahead with 6,000 steel and oil jobs set to go

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A total of 2,800 jobs are set to go at Port Talbot in Wales , while up to 3,000 jobs are expected to be axed at British Steel in Scunthorpe .

A further 400 will be cut at Scotland 's Grangemouth oil refinery.

Unions' hopes that investment from a new Labour government could help limit job losses have largely been dashed.

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formal

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English

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51

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