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Four decades after Britain's miners came above ground to fight plans to shut down their pits, a new survey found former pit towns are still falling far behind the rest of the UK because of lack of investment

A cross-party group of MPs has issued a series of recommendations about how the Government could 'level-up' former coalfields communities

Jennie Shearan, a housewife who moved to South Tyneside with her young family in 1953, devoted incalculable hours campaigning for her local British Coal plant to stop polluting the area with emissions such as sulphur dioxide