Nottinghamshire NUM Ex & Retired Miners Association

email:exandretiredminers@hotmail.co.uk

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REGULATOR WARNS OF POWER CUTS

3 Feb 2010
The UK could face power shortages in less than three years according to the energy Regulator OFGEM. The dire warning from the Regulator also warned that a significant number of consumers may not be able to afford the higher energy prices they could have to face.

Ofgem said that there was “reasonable doubt” about whether the UK’s energy market would be able to deliver sustainable supplies in the coming decade.Surely a case for re-nationalisation.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband expressed confidence in supplies being met.

MEDIA RELEASE

The Notts NUM Ex and Retired Miners Association
is looking for your views on which topics or subjects to include in a project, which aims to record the memories of ex and retired miners in Nottinghamshire. This project will be the subject of a bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The project will aim to record new oral history interviews with former miners and their families and to make these available on DVD and the Internet to libraries mining community centres.

As this is an enormous subject we are seeking advice from ex and retired miners to find out the most important and popular topics to cover in our project.

The Association would like to hear from ex and retired miners and their families to get views on what topics or areas should be covered in interviews and whether they would support such a project.

Please contact Eric Eaton Chairman on 01623 621611, or e-mail us at
exandretiredminers@hotmail.co.uk

The Secretary
Nottinghamshire NUM Ex & Retired
Miners Association
c/o 42 St John Street, Mansfield,Notts,NG18 1QJ
Telephone: 01623 621 611
www.nottinghamshireexminer.com

Bob Crow at Durham 2009

Tony Benn on pit closures

The Problem is Thatcher

FATHER AND SONS
A certain man had several Sons who were always quarrelling with one another, and, try as he might, he could not get them to live together in harmony. So he determined to convince them of their folly by the following means. Bidding them fetch a bundle of sticks, he invited each in turn to break it across his knee. All tried and all failed: and then he undid the bundle, and handed them the sticks one by one, when they had no difficulty at all in breaking them. "There, my boys," said he, "united you will be more than a match for your enemies: but if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you."

Union is strength.

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