So they did. But in Easington, County Durham, where the film was shot, they did not go back for long. The colliery closed in 1993. "That was due to my enemy Margaret Thatcher," says Mona McMann ...

I always thought the only Easington in the North East was the one on the County Durham coast, and not another village with the same name just a few miles outside Saltburn. But on a rainy Thursday ...

There's no whiter place in England and Wales than Easington in County Durham. As a survey finds white working class people feel forgotten and dejected, what do the people in this former colliery town ...