Three more pits to close

Title

Three more pits to close

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

4 Feb 1994

Year of production

1994

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Duration

00:01:29

Description

Mychaela(?) Stevenson(?) reports on the news that three more coal pits are to be closed. National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) branch treasurer Jim Sawyer says the average age of workers at Ellington in Northumberland is 35. British Coal spokesman Stuart Oliver says there was no way to make the pit profitable. Liberal Democrat MP for Berwick, Alan Beith says the miners have been betrayed.

Contributors

Alan Beith; Stuart Oliver; Mychaela(?) Stevenson(?); Jim Sawyer

Keywords

Trade unions; Unemployment; NUM; Coal industry; Coal miners; Coal mines; Northumberland; Nottinghamshire; British Coal; Redundancies; Ellington; Manton; Ollerton

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