mining Articles

Roger Liddle sees himself as an evangelist for Europe. This book’s target reader, he says at the beginning, is ‘the genuine sceptic, in the true meaning of the Oxford Dictionary of English – “a person inclined to question or doubt accepted opinions”’. But, however...

If you visit Phil Wilson's constituency of Sedgefield, you'll soon be reminded of the deep heritage of the Labour movement in County Durham. Whether the monument to the Trimdon Grange disaster, the huge ballroom of the Ferryhill Working Men's Club, or a roadsign...

This year 2012, we have the honour and privilege of celebrating the Diamond Jubilee, 60 years since Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as the then Princess Elizabeth succeeded her father King George VI who died on 5 February 1952 (Le Roi est mort, Vive la Reine). This is...

South Wales mining tragedy I can only begin by sending deepest condolences to the families of four miners: Charles Breslin, Phillip Hill, Garry Jenkins and David Powell, who lost their lives at the Gleision Colliery. I come from a mining family and I know the...