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Interview with Secretary of the NUM in Wales, Colin Tapper, on a decision by miners at the Oakdale colliery in the Sirhowy Valley to accept redundancy pay and the closure of their pit. He says the workers...
John Gripton reports on the pithead community service marking the closure of Mardy, the last remaining colliery in the Rhondda Valleys and reaction to the closure. Includes interviews with miner Len Evans;...
Sally Johnson reporting on the closure of Mardy Colliery, the last remaining colliery in the Rhondda Valleys. Includes reaction from NUM lodge chairman Mike Richards; vox pop with locals including miner Eric...
Brian Hayes talks to Glenys Kinnock about Namibiaâs recent independence from South Africa and its resources, political and economic development now it is not held by an apartheid state; and her charity...
Report on the 25 year anniversary of the Aberfan disaster in Wales where 116 children and 28 adults were killed. Includes interviews with Gaynor Madgewick who survived the tragedy which killed her brother...
Speech by miners leader Arthur Scargill in Birmingham to commemorate the 20th anniversary of a battle between police and miners at Saltley Gate coke depot in 1972 in which many other local workers joined in...
Phil Mercer reports on the retirement of British Coal’s last surviving pit pony. 26 year-old Welsh has worked his last few years at the Big Pit mining museum in Gwent, South Wales. He’s moving to an...
Des Fahy reports from Westminster on Commons proceeding where the Government backing down on its plan to close 31 coal pits. British Coal has been told to shut down 10 but must wait until after a statutory...
Simon Israel reports from Westminster on a mass rally attended by hundreds of miners as Parliament debates the future of coal pits. The Government has backed down on its plan to close 31 pits but British...
Mary Wimpress reports from Newcastle on the return home of thousands of miners following a mass rally at Westminster as Parliament debated the future of coal pits. The Government won the Commons vote on pit...
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