内容摘要：But if agreed, Slough Borough Council could make the move without it.

But if agreed, Slough Borough Council could make the move without it.

But Saturday's emergency legislation "enables" the government to keep the blast furnaces working, he said. Once a blast furnace is switched off it becomes incredibly difficult to restart production."If we hadn't acted the blast furnaces were gone and in the UK primary steel production would have gone," he said.

"If we hadn't acted, you'd be asking how we support the thousands who've lost their jobs."The Conservatives have criticised the government for not stepping in sooner to save the plant and protect jobs.Speaking to the BBC, Tory shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith said "the government could have seen this coming earlier".

He called the deal a "botched nationalisation" but argued the Conservatives supported the deal because "this because it's the least worst option on the table".Reynolds said the government intervened after "it became clear" that Jingye was intent on closing down the blast furnaces, no matter what financial support it received from the government.

The company rejected an offer of support in the region of £500 million, the government said, instead demanding more than twice that figure with few guarantees the blast furnaces would stay open.

In the Commons on Saturday, Reynolds said Jingye had not been negotiating "in good faith", while on Sunday he suggested it had not been acting "rationally"."Investors considering investing in gold should do so as part of a diversified portfolio – they shouldn't put all their eggs in a golden basket."

A university has awarded a posthumous degree to its first female student from an indigenous community, more than 100 years after she began her studies.Born in New Zealand in 1873, Mākereti Papakura is believed to be the first Māori woman to enrol at the University of Oxford.

The university said she had explored the customs of her people of the Māori Te Arawa iwi [tribe] from a female perspective through her "groundbreaking" research. But she died in 1930, just weeks before she was due to present her thesis.Prof Irene Tracey, Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford, will award the degree of MPhil in Anthropology at a ceremony in the Sheldonian theatre later in the year.