Back on the march: 1,000 ex-miners to protest over pension funds
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A former miner will lead 1,000 of his colleagues on a protest march over pension funds. Bert Moncur, who worked at Murton Colliery from 1974 until its closure in 1991, will head the parade of pit workers from Trafalgar Square tomorrow. And he admitted it may be a last chance for some of them to go on the march. They will head to Downing Street and on to Westminster Hall to lobby MPs in their long-running row over the Mineworkers Pension Scheme. Representatives of the National Mineworkers...

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