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The Pike River Recovery Agency reached the roof fall 2.26km up the drift access tunnel. Anna Osborne, whose husband Milton died in the mine disaster, said the end of the drift recovery process had left her with mixed emotions. “I’m incredibly proud that we have got this far and so thankful that the people of New Zealand have backed us getting this done and gathering the evidence that is crucial to getting justice for our boys. “But it’s also hard to know that this is as far as we will go and that Milt is still in there. I think every family member will be feeling that same mixture of pride and sadness,” she said. ....
Enforcement agents at the makeshift protest camp in Euston, London. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters A high court judge has ruled against a call to halt the eviction of protesters from a tunnel beside Euston Square on grounds of safety. Seven people are currently occupying the tunnel, in order to raise awareness both of the climate emergency, and the damage they say is being done by HS2. Mrs Justice Steyn rejected the claim by Dr Larch Maxey, the protester who brought the case, that the eviction by HS2’s contractors High Court Enforcement was not being handled safely and in compliance with human rights obligations. ....
It’s a doorway to darkness, an opening cut into the side of a hill. It leads to a long, low tunnel. I have to crouch down to avoid hitting my head. All we can hear is the crunch of our feet on the ground. All we can see are the spots of light from our torches. We walk down into the darkness. My guide, Andrew Watson, points his torch at a hole in the tunnel wall. It’s about 2ft high. Andrew used to be a coal miner and tells me the 2ft-high tunnel is typical of the ones he used to have to crawl down when he worked in the mines. I tell him it sounds hellish. He shrugs. You get used to it, he says. ....
The tragedy at Gleision Colliery retold as the 10-year anniversary approaches Garry Jenkins, 39, David Powell, 50, Phillip Hill, 45, and Charles Breslin, 62, were killed at the Gleision Colliery following a blast on September 15, 2011 This year will mark 10 years since the Gleision mining disaster which claimed the lives of four men (Image: Robert Melen) On one fateful day in autumn four men went to work and didn t come back following Wales biggest modern mining disaster. Garry Jenkins, 39, David Powell, 50, Phillip Hill, 45, and Charles Breslin, 62, were killed at the Gleision Colliery following an incident on September 15, 2011. They were working on a routine blasting operation at the pit in Cilybebyll, near Pontardawe, but disaster struck when the tunnel they were working in began filling with water. The miners and pit manager Malcolm Fyfield blasted through to flooded old workings, causing 650,000 gallons of water to gush into the mine. ....