A coal mine. Flickr/Herry Lawford. Some rights reservedHarry and Mia have different visions of the future. Those visions have just come into collision in a suburb of Newcastle. Only one can survive.
Harry Banks is 76. For 40 years, his company Banks Mining has been digging coal from opencast pits, mainly in northeast England.
Now it wants to gouge 3 million tonnes more from under boggy meadows just behind Druridge Bay in Northumberland, at the tip of the majestic coastline that stretches north towards Holy Island.
