| The trust will take over responsibility for projects under way to transform former coalfields to woodland and open areas, including 12 across the Yorkshire region. |
| During the last three centuries coal from the Yorkshire coalfields has been one of the world's major sources of power. |
| And when Bush misled our nation into war, the creaky old son of the coalfields gave his greatest roar. |
| In the west are the Ruhr coalfields, while in the east there are large lignite deposits. |
| Many of the borders separated factories from their raw materials, farms from their markets, ironworks from coalfields. |
| The union's refusal to defend jobs has left mining communities throughout the Appalachian coalfields in a depression-like state. |
