DEAR Cy and Curly you need to study your local history before you start bleating. Neither the Deputy Gaveller nor Mark Harper have disregarded or changed any rules. They have consulted the best legal brains in the country who instructed them on the law both common and uncommon which looks after the rights of both men and women equally.
Mike Jones did not go underground, get his hands dirty or his face blackened, he sat in the cab of an earth mover backwards and forwards across a field, a job I am capable of doing. He registered as a free miner.
I don't hear you complaining about that Cy, or is it just because I am a women? Women are fighting in Afghanistan, flying aeroplanes, express trains, buses and lorries and many more jobs just as good as men.
Thank you Cy for saying I look like a model, because the material I mine is used to make cosmetics that models and many women and some men wear. So I would not look dirty and black like a collier.
The iron miners always look clean and healthy compared to colliers, it is a totally different kind of work, you cannot compare them.
If you would like to come to Clearwell, I will give you both a guided tour and be pleased to tell you all about it. Our Forest traditions are not being blown out of the water, they are being reaffirmed and strengthened.
It would be very nice for the maternity unit at the Dilke to be reinstated. Many people are campaigning for this, including me, even though I was not born at the Dilke. I was born at home as all people were before the Dilke hospital was donated by Sir Charles Dilke. – Elaine Morman (Freeminer).