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| | News - Yorkshire Post Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | The ex-miner has been at the forefront of a campaign to use former pit land in his Bolsover constituency for a business park to replace thousands of jobs lost when the mines were closed. |
 | | Mr Skinner, 72, a miner for 21 years before taking his seat in the Commons in 1970, saw five years' defiance of sceptics bear fruit this week, when the road got the go-ahead. |
 | | The man who was once thrown out of the Commons for calling Tory mine closures "crooked", and was nicknamed the "Beast of Bolsover" was typically forthright in his celebration of the latest news. |
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