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Dispute that left society scarred

TROUBLED TIMES: Ex-miner and author David Douglass. Inset, his book, Ghost Dancers, recalling the Miners’ Strike and examining its legacy

11:45am Wednesday 3rd March 2010

The Miners' Strike came to an end on March 3, 1985. Twenty five years on, Mark Summers meets David Douglass, a miner and author who has recorded how he felt returning to the coalface after the year-long dispute.

Women, children and fit young men first

QUICK SINKER: The Lusitania, which was torpedoed by a German U-boat during the First World War and sank in only 18 minutes.

10:32am Tuesday 2nd March 2010

WOMEN and children came first on the Titanic but not on the Lusitania – where selfish survival instincts took over after the ship was torpedoed by a German Uboat, research has shown.

Birthday joy for engine maker

BIG DAY: Reg Moses celebrates his 100th birthday

10:49am Wednesday 24th February 2010

A RAILWAYMAN who helped build a top-secret, but ultimately unsuccessful, steam engine has celebrated his 100th birthday.

£650,000 bridge keeps rail heritage on track

SPANNING YEARS: The new bridge is lowered into place on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, below, between Goathland and Grosmont, after the original bridge was removed after 145 years of service

9:20am Friday 12th February 2010

A £650,000 project to replace a 145-year-old bridge on a popular tourist railway took a major step forward yesterday.

Railways bucking the trend with increase in passengers

8:57am Tuesday 2nd February 2010

IT may have been financial doom and gloom for many organisations last year, but one has bucked the trend.

Heritage railway to resume services after 60-year delay

9:58am Thursday 28th January 2010

DAILY passenger services are returning to a North-East heritage line this summer, nearly 60 years after they were withdrawn.

Small is beautiful, says railway boss

CAPITAL TRIP: A Grand Central train pulls into King’s Cross, London, on the first trip run by the company in December 2007

10:03am Thursday 28th January 2010

THE man at the helm of Grand Central Railway said he was surprised at the demise of National Express East Coast and suggested small is beautiful when it comes to connecting with rail travellers.

Photographs are donated to rail group

GIFTS GIVEN: Fred Ramshaw, from the rail group, right, with Sandra Hodgson, left, Jean Marley and Stuart Boulton, from Morrisons, with two of the photographs

9:03am Thursday 21st January 2010

HISTORIC photographs of a former railway works have been donated to a railway preservation group.

Cold-blooded killing that shocked region

SAVINGS INSIDE: William Anderson’s house on the right

8:23am Monday 4th January 2010

Seventy years ago, a crime took place that horrified the region – the murder of a blind man by a relative, who was tracked down after a nationwide manhunt. Mark Tallentire reports.

Restoration to begin on disaster lifeboat

The lifeboat on shore following the disaster

5:22pm Tuesday 15th December 2009

A LIFEBOAT involved in a rescue disaster nearly five decades ago was yesterday given shelter from the elements months after it was bought on an internet auction site.









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