1.   Coal mining remains important to the national economy with both deep mined and opencast output.

2.   Nuclear power still attracts massive subsidies while coal mining is expected to compete in a harsh world Market.

3.   There is something about coal mining that seems to brutalize a place.

4.   We will reverse the present planning presumption in favour of opencast coal mining and give top priority to local people and their environment.

5.   Increased exports were boosted by higher oil prices, which encouraged domestic investment, particularly in coal mining.

6.   This was true of coal mining, of hardware manufacture and of pottery in all of which increased output still depended on increasing the labour force.