Growing up in steel town: 'Give Scunthorpe a chance' - BBC Newsnight

Reports suggest a deal to rescue British Steel - which employs 3,000 people in Scunthorpe - is edging closer.
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In the second in our Rust and Revival series, film-maker Maya Rostowska returns to meet some of its younger residents.
As the town waits to learn its future, how do they see their own futures?
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[@TheHalalHam]

Scunthorpe’s the best place ever

[@oliverurry9332]

Yessss it is the best buzzy park is full of chavs though

[@alainportant6412]

@@oliverurry9332 Scunthorpe

[@tlnkj1910]

Why you taking the piss bro I know your joking but it’s actually depressing to see how many kids in Scunthorpe live in poverty most of there parents are on drugs it’s infested with drugs dealers gangs drug addicts and prostitution

[@looneyfawn6973]

That Leigh j kid looks like a nice guy

[@tiggystardust4405]

That's my sister wtfff

[@mrchocolatebean8878]

scunthorpe

[@slanemaddison628]

i know the blue haired girl its saff 1:17

[@mariuskidikas9514]

project fear

[@nbarrett100]

Just keep saying 'project fear' and everything will be fine

[@andrew30m]

Scunthorpe’s dead post brexit with tarrifs

[@garsm2290]

Exactly. Scunthorpe is going to boom after Brexit. What do you think will be the main boom areas?

[@andrew30m]

Gar Sm Heroine will probably be a growth area, taxis as nobody can afford to own a car

[@garsm2290]

@@andrew30m After Brexit, British manufacturing will be expanding, taking advantage of worldwide trading opportunities that Boris Johnson will I'm sure announce in good time for no-deal Brexit on October 31.

[@abcun17]

I wish the people and the town all the best. This is pretty sad. We have screwed up this world and left future generations with a mess on their hands. They'll have to clean up everything we have done to make their lives miserable and more hopeless than our own.

[@jamesmiddleton1278]

Nice bunch of people. Good luck to you.

[@jakecomerford8876]

I love the smell of lung disease in the morning

[@justinjarrett5868]

I lived in Scunthorpe for 8 and half years back in the 80s. Scunthorpe Steel will remain and will not close. If its closes the town is dead. Scunthorpe United will one day be back in the football league. The view looking down the hill to the garden centre westerly is breath taking. It's beautiful amazing. You don't get in Southport where I live know. I am proud that I lived in Scunthorpe

[@shoresy4703]

I live in scunthorpe and I must admit there I'd a side that's very different and not the nicest place to be but the moment you move away from the roads it's all green and a nice place be

[@jonsmustache7704]

Turn back now, these comments are pure cancer.

[@chasezaffuto3252]

I live in scunny and it’s utter shit

[@martinlee5604]

I'm planning a short break in Scunthorpe. I chose it over Majorca. What can I expect?

[@datpotatodancing8496]

I like how they only filmed up the like new bits of town and Central park the literal end part

[@Bailey.H0729]

haha and westcliff i live in scunny and im not proud of it

[@HaraiGoshi345]

Ahh Jamie, the old 2C owner.

[@yns000]

Naah dusty

[@aimeezcg]

fr though Scunny has a steelworks ight? but like it doesn't change us like I forgot it was there until it was aid it were shutting down

[@trueg66]

Maybe this would be a great place for tourism, the UK's future will be there after brexit, and this is so unique, just saying :-)

[@tiggystardust4405]

@Mr B init 😂😂 next joke

[@Deedee1987dee]

People make the place not the other way around. Stop blaming the government, Brexit etc. It's up to the people who live there to make it a decent place. What youth centers? Kids who want to achieve more have their day full of schoolwork, sports, etc.and no time for loitering. Education is put at the bottom and quick money at the top and most youths living thinking the world owes them something.

[@Leon-ko5so]

Lived in scunny for years its waaaaank

[@BenWillock]

No.

[@richardharling5825]

Pair of bag rats of scunny days everything

[@Txzie]

😂

[@discobiscuits4233]

😂😂😂😂😂as if wtf

[@stuartpaul9995]

Make the same video in a few years time post Brexit, and there`s a fair chance Scunthorpe will look like a Mad Max post apocalyptic chaos.

[@johnathanpearson3203]

Your hate for this country makes no sense. The French have said they will block all french ports if they can't fish in British waters after no deal. Looks like they are thinking again. 70% of UK fish goes to the French. Unmm. Lovely cheap British fish.

[@johnathanpearson3203]

@J. Harris. so what your saying (BBC style) is that you are looking forward to the regeneration of the British fishing industry? 🇬🇧Buy British 🇬🇧

[@Aspartame69]

I just want to point out, that unlike this representation, scunthorpe is not 75% degenerate weirdos.

[@oneeyedphotographer]

I didn't think this representation is 75% degenerate weirdos.

[@Aspartame69]

@@oneeyedphotographer OK, 80%?

[@AlanWattResistance]

@@Aspartame69 The BBC are expert manipulators.

[@jeanninesmith1284]

lies. they're all trash

[@SoulFlask]

@@AlanWattResistance 100%

[@ethoin8099]

I grew up and live in scunthorpe. The steel works are NOT a vital part of scunthorpe. Scunthorpe was NOT built on the steel works it was a viking settlement and it is a wonderful place and a lot better then the media makes out. And yes i agree ther are some bad parts, just like every other town/city

[@jono_high]

You're deluded if you think that the steelworks isn't a vital part of the town. Scunthorpe may not have been founded on steel, but it grew exponentially because of it.

[@ethoin8099]

It is a vital part of employment of scunthorpe but most people think scunthorpe revovles around the steelworks

[@tesuals]

Etho in nah you’re dusty

[@TheTrooper115]

Aye, Scunthorpe existed before the steelworks but not as we know it now. Scunthorpe was naught but a village before the works arrived and if not for the works would have stayed a village. No works, no Scunthorpe town. People don't say it for no reason.

[@elkiemart4132]

Ah yes old Skuma's Village i remember it well but not very vital 800 years ago

[@a-khanation5279]

I maybe was born in scunny but i live in Burnley all my life, Burnley Burnley Burnley, Lancashire

[@gamingminecraft2898]

WHEY BURNLEY FC WHEYYYYYYYYY

[@leemcmahon2879]

‘Maybe’ born in scunny?

[@a-khanation5279]

@@leemcmahon2879 on passport it says Scunthorpe, also you don't remember anything up until the age of 3 or even 4 or even close to 5 years old

[@leemcmahon2879]

A- KHANATION so you WERE born in Scunthorpe, not maybe.

[@a-khanation5279]

@@leemcmahon2879 🙂

[@tetsumeaoepaidowha8394]

Feels weird seeing the town I grew up in a video