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Women militants of the great strike reunite
As hundreds of women gather in Durham today to celebrate their role in fighting pit closures 40 years ago, HEATHER WOOD reflects on experiences in her own mining community, Easington in County Durham
STAYING UNITED: Heather Wood, (front, centre) next to Betty Cook of WAPC, with Anne Scargill of WAPC (at the rear) at the Easington annual gala 2019
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SITTING here thinking, my mind goes back to 1984. What was I doing, what was going on?
I have always been involved in my community, a close-knit mining village on the north-east coast, Easington.
My mam and dad, good colliery folk, were not afraid of hard work, in fact, there weren’t many in our village who didn’t work.
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