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PIT DEATHS SLAMMED EIGHT people were killed In Scottish mining accident last year and mo't of the deaths could have

... PIT DEATHS SLAMMED EIGHT people were killed In Scottish mining accident last year and mo't of the deaths could have been avoided A report yesterday by the Government’s Health and Safety executive said accident inspectors found’failure to comply with ...

Published: Friday 03 August 1979
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 509 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Children Hee shotgun man Mrs No 24817 Rescue race as two miners die HORROR O PIT BLAST By STANLEY VAUGHAN

... volatile coking gas coal About 1500 men work at the pit The deepest shaft is about half a mile underground Last night’s disaster was a grim blow to Britain’s mining safety record There have been few major pit tragedies recently firing a second shot at the ...

Published: Friday 13 June 1975
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 628 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Page DAILY NEW MOVE TO BEAT MILK BAN By BILL HYNDMAN hold-up months the Rolls-Royce DUNG Alev the job’ Disaster

... Page DAILY NEW MOVE TO BEAT MILK BAN By BILL HYNDMAN hold-up months the Rolls-Royce DUNG Alev the job’ Disaster crash in his car BARGAINS But yesterday the British sacked YEARS BY POST Bui UCS workers set bonus Mr navies Amt Mr Heid said yes- in the latest ...

Published: Saturday 07 August 1971
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1291 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Markham safety criticised

... miners' leader hit out over safety checks at an inquest today on the 18 who died in the Markham Colliery disaster. “The accident showed that the pit cage winding mechanism at Markham deft a lot to be desired.” said Mr Peter Heathfield, Derbyshire secretary ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1974
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 134 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

FIFTY YEARS AGO

... YEARS AGO AN outbreak of fire at Shankhouse Pit which w gutted the joiners’ shops sent a thrill through th= . rounding districts last might, the flames being very ‘intense and at one period tinging the sky a dark red Wue which was visible for miles around ...

Published: Thursday 08 April 1976
Newspaper: Blyth News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 324 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Tears of agony that could be shed all over the world A victim s hysterical mother is dragged away from

... ago an explosion through a pt at High Blantyreond 209 men lost their Itves The list of Scots disasters has grown ever DRITAIN is no stranger to pit disasters urxithe misery they bring The w rst was in 1913 wfien 439 men dux! at the Universal Colliery ...

Published: Tuesday 30 December 1975
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 591 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

2 DAILY RECORD rfeVs v£ NEVER AGAIN! Vow of two miners who cheated death MP Jim says Tharpe tails for

... Cloudy ABROAD TWO YOUNG miners who escaped death in the Haughton Main pit disaster vowed yesterday: We have finished with mining Nothing would get ufe back down there dgain” ather of two red Woodcock 25 and Roy Buckley 27 year-old father of three were blown ...

Published: Saturday 14 June 1975
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1027 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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Published: Saturday 18 March 1972
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

News Post }Coer‘f']sm(’esnt l Face to face

... children is unrealistic in the world of today's prices. There can be no incentive for this type of man to work hard in the pits or, indeed, for him to stay there. He wants more money for his job — and rightly so. But where will the extra money he wants ...

Published: Thursday 14 July 1977
Newspaper: Blyth News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 380 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

24 DAILY RLCOWD September 10 1976 ’1awse test! lease? human tats! "-w ByJOHNPtRIE use of the belt in ..

... workers owned their own pits The pits of course closed One by one” McHugh went on Because it was important to know the historical background “ And then the Michael There was the disaster and the fire And it closed And it was the biggest pit There was nothing ...

Published: Friday 10 September 1976
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1151 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

YOU DON'T become Governor of the Bank of England by being a blabbermouth. Being a socialist has mnot been ..

... simply won't get dug as men will leave the pits, overtime or no overtime. You can’t force men to dig coal at the point of a bayonet and you can’t run this country by calling people heroes when there is a pit disaster, and Communists when they’re just trying ...

Published: Monday 21 January 1974
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 618 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

VjiAQ DAILY RECORD Saturday March 31 1979 21 PIN-MONEY TAKE-OVER Alverton to see Jim Blair K?W' w comes in the

... on the form book he looks beaten by Rough And Tumble and Sand Pit Again ridden by Martin O'Halloran negative (50-1) One of four in the race from the stable of four-times winning trainer red Rimell Partnered jjy youngest rider in the race 20-year-old amateur ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 1979
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1552 | Page: 21 | Tags: none