内容摘要：If you are travelling by train, the nearest station is Lisburn Train Station which is less than 15 minutes away from the event.

If you are travelling by train, the nearest station is Lisburn Train Station which is less than 15 minutes away from the event.

"It was dangerous, I couldn't because when I was 20-years-old I was trapped by the legs in Fauldhead Colliery for two-and-a-half hours which led to my osteoarthritis."Jim's family were heavily active as the community pulled together during the strike.

His son Ian was at the Battle of Orgreave in South Yorkshire, where strikers clashed with police, and Jim's sisters helped out at the nearby Kello Rovers soup kitchen.Alastair Monteith remembers the miners strike as "a harrowing time" which led to lifelong divisions between friends and family.The 70-year-old grew up in a mining family, with his father and brother also working in the pits, and became a joiner after the collieries closed.

Alastair said: "I remember there was a particular higher spot overlooking a bridge here in Kirkconnel where strikers stood to throw rocks at the buses ferrying workers in."People refused to associate with the local bus companies as well. The divisions ran really deep and they've never gone away.

"It was a horrific time, I remember a lot of people chopping down trees to sell wood just so they could afford to eat."

Alastair recalled a lot of people moved away, leading to some "special reunions" in recent years.Writing to the Labour MP for Harlow, Chris Vince, she said the government was "actively considering" options to renew the UK's high containment laboratories.

"A new site in Harlow is one of the options being considered," Reeves said.The existing site earmarked for development, once owned by pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, was purchased for £30m in 2017.

, more than £400m has already been spent on the project.In her letter, Reeves said: "The government understands the pressing need for a decision to be made.