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Councillor John McCabe, Honorary Secretary of both the North of England Institute of Mining and the North East Mechanical Engineers and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
“Repaying the £1.2billion would only be a start,” said Alan Mardghum, Secretary of the Durham Miners’ Association, who is pushing for 100% ‘compensation’ for the vast sums he argues workers and their families are owed.
"But we should be getting 100% of the money from a fund we’ve all paid into. The Government has continued to take that money even despite the recommendations made by an all-party Parliamentary committee.
"That’s miners’ money – that’s a fund that miners paid into to secure a future for themselves and for their widows.”