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Yes that is true researchers get funding and can be politically biased. However and not wanting to dismiss Yorkie's valid points in this debate, I am inclined to believe an economics professor over her. A professor who has done years of research in different coalfield areas in Britain I think...

This middle link does not back up what you said Yorkie, you said this in an earlier thread: "What social problems? There weren't any worse social problems in the coal field areas than any other part of Britain. As I have said before, those that didn't transfer to the Pontefract coalfield (the...

I have looked around and here are some more links that might make the viewpoint look more balanced: http://www.shu.ac.uk/cresr/staff/s-forthergill.html http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/housing/2046.asp http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/article1039858.ece

I wasn't having a go at Thatcher when I posted those links, even though I do not like her. I was trying to point out to Yorkie that there is evidence to support that there were/are social problems after the pits were closed. She stated that there were no greater social problems in closed pit...

Isn't being balanced the same as being independent. I thought being independent was not having a particular political viewpoint?

Be careful you have quoted from a Guardian article and as you haven't got the story from another newspaper you are therfore not balanced enough. I was told this earlier in a post on this thread!

Oh and by the way I am not a Guardian reader, I jjust found the article when I was doing a search on Google.

The BBC is balanced. I found the article on Google after I did a search. Did you read both articles?

I thought you might say that! If you read the article a lot of it is based on research by a chap called Steve Fothergill, he's a professor at Sheffield University "who has long studied the impact of the rapid rundown of the mining industry on pit communities". So I am believing him.

Another article to read about social problems caused by the closing of the pits and a bit more recent too: http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,,2043852,00.html

Read this article Yorkie and think again about the social problems that you claim were no different to any other aprt of Britain: http://society.guardian.co.uk/socialexclusion/comment/0,11499,1491108,00.html

I saw in interesting progamme on CH4 a while back about global warming.One of the theories is that Maggie started all the global warming stuff up as she was having problems with the coal mines and wanted to move away from coal.

I should have the said the major employer in a town of village then. How long did the regeneration take to start, was it instantaneous? My theory is that they should have continued to sunsidise the pits and gradually put in new industries so that when the pits were finally closed you wouldn't...

But where does the money come from when you stop subsidising these companies and coal mines and you have to pay peoples unemployment benefit when they get made redundant. What some people fail to realise in my opinion is that when you close down pits and big manufacturing companies that empoly...

Because we bothered to colonise it. There wasn't anyone there when we colonised it in the 19th Century. So I believe.

I think it may have partly been that, but I beleive the main reason is that the Argentines have beleived that the Falklands is theirs for hundreds of years. It's taught to kids in school over there that is theirs! Galtieri used this to get out of a sticky situation in Argentina at the time.

The Tories made massive defence cuts to the Navy before the Falklands War. There were plenty of warnings that an invasion was about to happen. We were lucly that we won with all the cuts to the Navy that had happened.

In your opinon!

Are you sure burning coal destroys the ozone? I thought that was releasing CFC's into the atmosphere that did that?

I am asking. I am asking the person who called him a twat. Surely you must know? Or have you forgotten already?