Britain's Easington gas processing terminal was fully shut down on Monday after a liquid leak was detected, British Gas said, but the flow of gas from Norway was unaffected, according to pipeline ...

In fact, Dawdon and Murton survived until 1991 and Easington and Vane Tempest in Seaham didn't close until 1993 but, as the industry did decline, along with Easington's only other major employer ...

In 2008, an Audit Commission report into coalfield regeneration described the district of Easington as "perhaps the area worst affected by pit closures in the country". As home to some of the UK ...

On a hilltop above the former site of Easington Colliery stands a pit cage, a stark monument to a vanished life – 83 years of mining coal. Nearby, the words of a "Bevin Boy", one of thousands of ...