Tarzan Gets It Back!

Early one Sunday in September and a motley collection of ex-miners, trade unionists and environmentalists are looking for coal with pickaxes and spades. A sleepy Deputy Prime Minister looks out of his window and sees sixty people digging up his lawn! Heseltine, the man responsible for ditching the deep mine industry, will have to fight a planning application for a mine in his back garden. This was just a preliminary visit! Now Heseltine will have to defend his land and state why he objects to the application. Whatever his words, he will be accused of NIMBYism and any arguments about intrusion, pollution, noise, dust or disruption will be widely used by Britain’s 40 local anti open cast groups. After 7 hours, much digging, a picnic and a game of cricket, the protesters left. There were no arrests.