内容摘要："I think she is seriously questioning whether to carry on, which would be a real shame because we don't have enough instructors, let alone female instructors in the industry."

"I think she is seriously questioning whether to carry on, which would be a real shame because we don't have enough instructors, let alone female instructors in the industry."

In Grimethorpe, near Barnsley, thousands of men gathered in the centre of the village behind the colliery brass band to march back to the pit gates.Defeated but not broken, they were clapped and cheered amid shouts of "keep your heads up".

Many children had been brought out from the classrooms to watch on and support their fathers.Speaking to the BBC at the time, Grimethorpe branch secretary Bill Fearon said: "My feelings this morning are certainly one of unity. We all came out together and I'm delighted we're all going back together."In the weeks and months before the vote it was clear that times were changing and remaining on strike was no longer an option.

Miners and their families had faced increasing financial hardship, so much so some had made the difficult decision to go against the NUM and return to workThe pickets had failed to stop or even restrict power supplies to the nation and so the united front was beginning to disintegrate.

A striking miner, Jim Duffy who worked at Brodsworth, in Doncaster, remembers it was time of mixed emotions as they walked back to the colliery site.

"My wife and son who was in a pushchair walked alongside me. The lads were all subdued and overwhelmed really," he said."It's just not good, it's not good at all," he said.

Showers continued through the night on Monday and on Tuesday in parts of south-west England, the north coast of Northern Ireland, north-west England and the coastal counties of Scotland.Some of these showers are heavy with thunder over the hills.

But through Tuesday evening and overnight another area of low pressure will sweep in from the Atlantic, bringing a spell of wet and potentially windy weather to England and Wales.On its current track, the low pressure will bring rain north-eastwards across south-west England this evening and then Wales, the Midlands, East Anglia, parts of northern England and south-east England, where it could turn heavy and thundery.