COAL mining in Scotland is on the brink of oblivion after Britain's second largest producer said more than half of its workers are to be axed as major financial problems threaten its future.
COAL mining in Scotland is on the brink of oblivion after Britain's second largest producer said more than half of its workers are to be axed as major financial problems threaten its future.
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MARTIN WILLIAMS
The country's oldest major industry, which at its peak in 1957 employed 87,000 men and after the Second World War had 187 collieries, will be reduced to little more than 500 workers after Scottish Coal's parent company announced it is to axe 450 of its 758-strong workforce.
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