On 14/12/12 13:50, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In article , Nightjar
writes

They were going to go anyway. It was cheaper to ship coal from Australia
than to get it from British mines.

'Was' being the operative word.

still the case. We cant compete with vast open cast mines in the USA or
poland.


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