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Coalfields regeneration charity given £750k for health and employment improvements
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT), the charity that supports local initiatives to improve health and employment prospects for people across the country’s mining communities, has welcomed ongoing funding from the Scottish Government. Tom Arthur
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Growing success is transforming former coalfields back to the wild
The region’s heritage of coal-mining remains part of the collective identity of towns and villages of rural East Ayrshire. Dunstonhill, which sits between Patna and Drongan is a former opencast site that is now owned by the Forestry and Land Scotland