内容摘要：The union's eastern regional organiser, Cameron Matthews, said: "These counsellors provide essential support to people going through serious mental health issues across Norfolk and Suffolk.

The union's eastern regional organiser, Cameron Matthews, said: "These counsellors provide essential support to people going through serious mental health issues across Norfolk and Suffolk.

We find the family, joined by Tom's father Mark, unloading Save Scunthorpe Steel placards from a car parked near Central Park.As Tom uses a mallet to hammer in the homemade signs, passing motorists sound their horns.

With defiance in his voice, he declares: "We have some of the best steelworkers in the world right here. We make the best grade of steel and every single one of us is passionate about it."The steelworks, with its vast chimneys and towers, looms over the town, as it has done for generations.Tom adds: "Iron ore is the bedrock of this town. Every single person in this town has some connection to it."

The government has offered to buy the coking coal that is essential to keep steel production going in Scunthorpe, the BBC has been told.British Steel has warned that the raw materials needed to keep its plant's two blast furnaces operational are running out.

Sources said the government was putting the offer to British Steel's Chinese owner Jingye, which will decide on whether to accept it.

Unions say the situation is on a "cliff-edge".As the decorations and displays have grown in size, so too have the visitor numbers.

Weekends and Friday nights are the busiest, residents say, with hundreds of people expected to visit in the run-up to Christmas.Requests are made on social media to those coming along to park considerately - suggesting drivers use a nearby industrial estate, then walk 10 minutes down to Nayling Road.

"It gets manic," laughs Dawn Isaac, whose display includes an illuminated archway, icicles hanging off the roof and a multicoloured front fence."It's lovely to see, but it's better if people walk down because, obviously, being a cul-de-sac means there's one way in and one way out, and it gets rammed."