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“SOME things just stick in your mind,” as Vashti Bunyan sang all those years ago.
As I packed my bags yesterday for Durham, where I’ll be spending the weekend at the Big Meeting, I couldn’t help but think of a speech I heard there four years ago, when I was attending the Miners’ Gala for the first time.
Tosh McDonald, then president of train drivers’ union Aslef, spoke of the historic connection between the railways and the coal industry.
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