Uk COAL MINING -the DEMISE of an INDUSTRY - At its peak, the British coal industry employed over a million men and was one of the most important industries in the UK. Transport, power and related industries were all heavily reliant on coal. Even in the mid-1960s, British Rail was still running on coal power (steam). In the 1970s, a strike by coal miners left Britain on the infamous three day week. Coal was Britain’s lifeblood, and without it, the economy could come to a standstill. The decline o

The decision to approve the UK's first new deep coal mine in thirty years has been quashed in the High Court. Plans for the mine in Cumbria were approved by the Conservative government in 2022. But environmental campaigners mounted a legal challenge, saying all fossil fuel extraction should stop. | Channel 4 News