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The UK is about to stop producing any electricity from burning coal - ending its 142-year reliance on the fossil fuel.

A cross-party group of MPs has issued a series of recommendations about how the Government could 'level-up' former coalfields communities

Jennie Shearan, a housewife who moved to South Tyneside with her young family in 1953, devoted incalculable hours campaigning for her local British Coal plant to stop polluting the area with emissions such as sulphur dioxide