Life after coal: how one Easington Colliery family survived the closure of their mine

Taken during the miners' strike, this picture of the Handy family came to signify the era. But what happened to them? As the last deep mine in Britain closes, Richard Benson finds out

'I did it by working at night," says Gill Handy, explaining how, in the early 1990s, she juggled three kids, her own job, and all the housework for a miner husband on early shifts.

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