Sentences with phrase «pit closures»

That has left the region with a GVA of # 13,181 — well below average for the South East and in a county that also suffered from pit closures thirty years ago now.

A threatened rebellion by Tory MPs also led to a slashing of the number of pit closures.

«Just as it was morally wrong to smear hundreds of thousands of striking miners and Women Against Pit Closures activists in this way in 1984/5, it is morally wrong to dismiss and demonise hundreds of thousands of Labour Party members in this way in 2016,» he stated.

As a young journalist in South Yorkshire I saw first hand the direct impact on families and communities of Tory inspired pit closures.

In this case, that trouble comes in the form of Margaret Thatcher, whose pit closures are the cause of the strike, and in seeing how Thatcher's government has pushed these people into a corner, the young Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer) sees something he's all too familiar with.

These insights make his descriptions of the Maastricht sequence, leaving the ERM, the pit closure debacle, and the back to basics row, for example, particularly valuable.

And now one month on from the pit closure, all four are settling into their new homes — and jobs - after being moved in pairs to nearby farms.