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Supporters say the project will create jobs and reduce the need to import coal, but critics argue it goes against climate targets. and we will have more reaction to that announcement in around half—an—hour. hannah is in whitehaven. we will get a sense of the impact on the local community. emergency care doctors are warning that the sickest and frailest patients coming to a&e in england are being failed, as they face long waits to get on to wards. bed shortages mean delays of four hours are common, with some patients forced to wait more than 12 hours. 0ur health correspondent, jim reed has ...

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Coal power to history and that had been the case here in whitehaven and we are on the site of the old coal mine which closed in the 1980s. now though it is the office of a company called west cumbria mining which last night was granted permission to build a new coalmine a mile or so up the road from here. it's a decision by the communities and levelling up secretary, michael gove and it promises to bring jobs to an area where many look back fondly on the prosperity that industries like this brought. but it sips in tension with some of the government's promises to bring down climate emissions t...