Letter: Applause all the way for miners
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: The recent 'turn-around' by the Government over the coal mines has been attributed by it and others, perhaps correctly, to an overwhelming level of public support towards the miners.
What is worrying is that, with scant regard for any other side of the coin that may exist, this 'public support' has been directed by a handful of newspaper and television news editors.
Yours faithfully,
RICHARD BLAKSLEY
London, SW11
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