https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/meet-last-miners-uk-including-4311311.amp
This week Government Minister Rebecca Pow from DEFRA has agreed to make the freeminers from the Forest of Dean exempt from new laws banning the sale of coal by 2023.
It is a victory for the The Royal Forest of Dean Freeminers’ Association which says the small amount of money they make from selling the coal is needed to keep the mines open.
The Clean Air Act is expected to close surviving commercial coal mines in this country by making them uneconomic, leaving the Forest the only working coalfield in the UK.
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