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Good evening. Miners at Kellingley over on the BBC News Channel. | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Good evening. Miners at Kellingley Colliery have tonight vowed to do | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
everything they can to keep the pit open. Union officials and workers | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
have held their first formal meeting since it emerged that the colliery | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
near Knottingley faces closure, along with Thoresby pit in | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Nottinghamshire. 1,400 jobs could be lost. In a moment we'll get the | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
latest from Kellingley, but first Danni Hewson has this. As the first | :00:30. | :00:46. | |
shift arrived Kellingley colliery this morning, there was a sense of | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
disbelief, and despair. Everybody is gutted. The lads have tried as hard | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
as they can on the ground but without money and everything, it's | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
over. I'm 48 years old, been here 32 years, there is no jobs out there | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
for us whatsoever. Most of the call is imported, shipped in from Russia, | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
America and Colombia. So why is it cheaper to ship it thousands of | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
miles, rather than driving less than five miles down the road? The call | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
in the deep mines in the UK is getting harder to reach. Issues of | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
geology and safety push costs up. And there was a glut of coal because | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
of the Shelbourne America, which is forced the price right down. This is | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
cold comfort for the apprentice started three months ago. At the | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
interview they said there was ten years worth of coal, 15 years | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
reserve, so 25 years, and I thought but I would be happy in this, I had | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
been the happiest I have been in a job. And in the Commons today, this | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
empty argued that subsidy is commonplace for gas and oil could | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
still see the pits. Surely, you could use the same sort of system | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
with the EU and anybody else to stop the demise and the closure of the | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
last three remaining pits? We are working tirelessly on this. We have | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
solution, that all parties can sign solution, that all parties can sign | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
up to, that is value for money and that will actually work. And we are | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
trying our best. Assurances of platitudes, either way, words are | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
unlikely to save these two minds. `` mines. Well there's been a lot of | :02:41. | :02:51. | |
political reaction to this today and both the local MPs agree there is a | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
strong case for keeping the pit open. We have to do everything we | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
can to keep the pits open. The Government is ruling out any option | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
that goes beyond 2015 which means losing hundreds of jobs at | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Kellingley, and we would not have any sustainable future for the coal | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
industry in Britain, so I think they are taking the wrong approach and | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
that is why I have been talking to the unions about what we can do to | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
look at other options are to keep the pits open for longer. There is | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
lots of pressure that we can bring to bear, and the Government, | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
thankfully, is listening. We have got to get everybody round the table | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
to agree terms. There is a real`time pressure on this. And what is | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
crucial is that in the next few days, we are able to agree a deal to | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
keep these pits open, to keep UK coal going, and long term, I | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
believe, as the miners do, that there is a future here. Our reporter | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
Kate Bradbrook is at the Kellingley Miners Welfare Club in Knottingley. | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
What's the latest? The mood matches the weather outside, but the miners | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
are trying to keep up eight. A union meeting was held to keep `` find a | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
way forward. Keith was at that meeting. What did they say? The men | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
were a little bit down. But they have been buoyed by the support that | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
they have received, including the cross`party members of Parliament, | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
of all parties, supporting us, to try and get us over the difficult | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
that we face in the short`term, at Kellingley. What are you hoping for, | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
then? We hope to secure a short`term loan from the Government which would | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
tide us over this period. We would pay it back once we are profitable, | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
which would be within months, rather than any other time scale. You | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
believe you can be profitable that quickly? It is a profitable mind | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
with lots of reserves, and whatever we borrow, we will pay back with | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
interest. It is a commercial loan, not closure aid. The pit is due to | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
close in the next 18 months, but in the next few days, discussions over | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
its long`term future will continue. More news now, and North Yorkshire | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
Police has referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
Commission over the way it handled child sex abuse allegations about | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
Jimmy Savile and Savile's friend, the former Scarborough Mayor Peter | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
Jaconelli, who died in 1999. In February, the BBC's Inside Out | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
programme spoke to five men who said they were assaulted by Jaconelli as | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
boys. Afterwards, the force appealed for them to come forward. It says if | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
he were alive today, Jaconelli would have been interviewed under caution | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
and a file sent to the Crown Prosecution Service. Police | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
searching for a missing teenager in a river in York say he may have been | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
trying to swim across it. The 18`year`old was seen going into the | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
River Ouse at King's Staith in the early hours of this morning. He's | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
the third person thought to have drowned in York's rivers since | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
Christmas. Two people have been arrested in Barnsley on suspicion of | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
murder after an elderly woman's body was found last night. Police were | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
called to Birkwood Avenue in Cudworth at about half past five and | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
found the body of a woman in her seventies. A 23`year`old man and | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
17`year`old girl have been arrested. Time now for the weather forecast. | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
The good news is, we will have a West the south`westerly wind which | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
will brighten things up tomorrow afternoon but it will be a damp | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
start with some patchy rain. It will become unsettled into the weekend | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
and into early next week. It is wet out there to the west and south, | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
with rain spreading from the south`west, extensive fog over the | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
hills, misty elsewhere, lo temperatures of six Celsius. A | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
familiar start of the day tomorrow with some rain and drizzle around, | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
that patchy rain moving North East, then the wind switches to the | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
south`west, clearing that fog from the hills, then it will brighten up. | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Still, variable amounts of cloud, and just a small chance of a shower. | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
Temperatures not that bad. Milder on the coast, looking at about 13 | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
Celsius in Filey and Whitby. On Saturday, a bit of drizzle coming in | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
from the west, but try and white further east. A bit of uncertainty | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
followed by wet weather late on the day on Sunday. I will leave you with | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
a summary, and now the national weather. | :07:39. | :07:40. |