The slow death of king coal
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TONY BLAIR strode to electoral victory in May to the beat of a song entitled “Things can only get better”. But for Britain's coal miners things look sure to get worse.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The slow death of king coal”
From the December 20th 1997 edition
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