The battle to prevent pit closures was in the headlines when a group of staunch campaigners staged a round-the-clock vigil 32 years ago. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Sunderland Echo ...

Politicians have called for former coalfields to be turned into green energy hubs to reverse the damage of the pit closures. Grahame Morris, Labour MP for Easington, said the government should ...

to maintain farm prices – known as the “butter mountains” – were “not an example of an effective economic intervention” to ease the impact of pit closures. Mr Leishman, the MP for ...

He stated that these were "not an example of an effective economic intervention" to mitigate the effects of pit closures. Earlier, Mr Leishman, representing Alloa and Grangemouth, said ...

Tory MP David Simmonds urged the Government to learn ‘some of the lessons that we need to draw out’ of coal pit closures for the ‘just transition’. Ministers should “draw out” lessons ...