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Our solidarity with Sharlston colliery
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As industrial reporter on the Yorkshire Evening Post — the biggest newspaper covering Britain’s biggest coal field — my first experience of mining communities came during the 1974 strike which brought down Ted Heath’s Tory government.
At that time my local Labour Party on the outskirts of Leeds made links with Sharlston colliery — one of more than 50 Yorkshire coal mines — which was 30 miles away, between Wakefield and Doncaster.
A decade later those links were still there and a support group was established to help feed the 1,000 miners of Sharlston and their families.
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