内容摘要：On Saturday, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told the BBC Labour "want to reform the business rate system in a way that reduces the costs for small businesses and high streets, ensuring that some of the big multinationals and tech companies pay their fair share".

On Saturday, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told the BBC Labour "want to reform the business rate system in a way that reduces the costs for small businesses and high streets, ensuring that some of the big multinationals and tech companies pay their fair share".

On Monday morning, Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of the Community Union - which represents the majority of steelworkers - said the blast furnaces are "in a far better position" than before the government stepped in.Mr Rickhuss told Today he was certain the plant would remain running and that the furnaces were "secure".

Charlotte Brumpton-Childs, from the GMB Union, told BBC Breakfast that she had spoken to British Steel on Sunday night and had been reassured the raw materials would be secured by the government.The Scunthorpe plant employs 2,700 people and is the last site in the UK that can produce virgin steel - a high-grade product which is needed for large construction projects.Without the plant, the UK would be the only member of the G7 group of leading economies without the ability to make virgin steel - which the government believes would pose a risk to the country's economic security.

The site produces the majority of rail tracks used by Network Rail. The company said it does not expect "any impact on the continued delivery of reliable rail services" as it built up a stockpile of steel in anticipation of the plant's possible closure.The virgin steel made in Scunthorpe is also critical for large-scale infrastructure developments, such as building nuclear power plants like the ongoing

However, in March, Jingye said the Scunthorpe site was losing £700,000 a day, which it said was "no longer financially sustainable", and the company began a consultation on job cuts.

Talks with Jingye last week failed to produce a breakthrough. The government said the company had demanded more than double the government's original £500m offer with few guarantees it would keep the plant open.Southern Water monitors all its storm overflows. The company records when and for how long a discharge is happening.

Permits are issued to water companies by the Environment Agency, which decides under what conditions storm overflows can be used.The agency said they should not spill on dry days, but there are exceptions.

An Environment Agency spokesperson said: "Storm overflows, like Ham Lane, must only be used under strict permitted conditions that control their environmental impact."We will always seek to hold those responsible for environmental harm to account.