BBCNEWS BBC News August 6, 2021 12:35:00
Margaret thatcher's decision to close 20 pits in 198a led to the year—long miners�* strike, causing bitter division in communities. nowhere more so than in nottinghamshire. closing mines had devastating economic consequences too. the way the prime minister made his comments has irked opponents. it's just not funny, is it? so many of our communities around here were absolutely devastated by the closure of the mines and it was nothing to do with the environment, as he suggests. it was about ideology, because we still burn coal locally and we could have invested money in greenjobs and green t...
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