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World Service,12 Apr 1990,13 mins

NUM and British Coal

Network UK

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The decline of the British trade union, the National Union of Mineworkers since the end of the 1984 miners' strike. Coal pits continue to be closed throughout Britain, including Grimethorpe pit.

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