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BBC, 14/11/2018 Eight fined over Dipton mine newt protests

The Ecologist, 14/11/2018 Coal firm faces court for alleged wildlife crime

DeSmog UK, 26/10/2018 Campaigners File for Court Case Against Banks Group Over Protection of Great Crested Newts at UK’s Newest Coal Mine

Canary, 11/09/2018 Two open cast coal mines shut down for the day by residents and activists

Independent, 08/09/2018 Rise for Climate: Protesters take to streets across the planet to demand action on environment

Northern Echo 07/09/2018 Campaigners return to protest at opencast site

DeSmog UK, 17/08/2018 ‘The Law Will Protect a Species, But not its Ecosystem’ — Fighting for Wildlife at the UK’s Newest Coal Mine

The Ecologist, 16/08/2018 Acquitted coal mine protester speaks out against UK legal system

Freedom News, 16/08/2018 Not guilty: reflections from Pont Valley trial

The Ecologist, 10/08/2018 Revealed: Planning breach at UK’s newest coal mine goes unpunished

DeSmog UK, 08/08/2018 Revealed: Council not Enforcing Planning Breach at UK’s Newest Coal Mine

Canary, 07/08/2018 Anti-coal protesters are cleared as they’re found to have prevented a mining company acting unlawfully

Northern Echo, 24/07/2018 Opencast mine protestors due in court were ‘doing it for the newts’

Guardian, 23/07/2018 ‘We’ve suffered enough’: Durham locals fight new opencast coal mine

Northern Echo, 19/07/2018 Appeal to block Dipton open cast rejected by Government

DeSmog UK, 12/07/2018 Communities Secretary James Brokenshire Refuses to Revoke Planning Permission for Controversial Pont Valley Opencast Coal Mine

Guardian, 11/07/2018 End coal mining in the UK, environmentalists urge government

DeSmog UK, 02/07/2018 Investigation: Has Banks Group Illegitimately Commenced Work at the UK’s Newest Coal Mine?

Northern Echo, 09/06/2018 Protests will continue at controversial opencast site

BBC, 04/06/2018 ‘Arrests delay work’ at Dipton opencast mine

The Canary, 04/06/2018 Campaigners claim “massive achievement” against controversial coal contractor

The Ecologist, 04/06/2018 Protesters launch blockade at County Durham opencast mine

BBC, 03/06/2018 Protesters return to site of Dipton opencast mine

Chronicle Live, 01/06/2018 Campaigners form human chain to block delivery of tarmac to County Durham coal mine

Palatinate, 26/05/2018  Durham opencast coal mine sparks local protest

Palatinate, 19/05/2018, Durham University involved in controversial mining site

Darlington & Stockton Times, 15/05/2018 Protestors use ‘lock-on’ device to block Bradley opencast site near Consett

Left Foot Forward, 15/05/2018 Why a County Durham community is taking on a mining firm

DeSmog UK, 30/04/2018 Where Does Communities Secretary James Brokenshire Stand on Fracking, Climate Change, and Brexit?

The Ecologist, 20/04/2018 Two arrested at coal protest site eviction

The Ecologist, 20/04/2018 Dispatches from the coalface: ‘Protecting the land, my home’

The Ecologist, 28/03/2018, Protecting Pont Valley: meet the protesters fighting a new coal mine

DeSmog UK, 23/03/2018 ‘Coal is our Heritage, not our Future’: Inside the Community Protecting Pont Valley from Banks Mining

Freedom News, 23/03/2018 Druridge Bay coal mine rejected — Pont Valley next?

The Ecologist, 12/03/2018 Why the UK government must step in now to stop new coal mine

Chronicle Live, 02/03/2018 Campaigners fighting opencast mine take 86,000-strong petition to Westminster

Business Green, 02/03/2018 Druridge Bay: Can a government committed to a coal phase out really approve an open cast mine?

Northern Echo, 27/02/2018 Campaigners fighting opencast mine at Bradley site, near Leadgate, brave ‘Beast from the East’ to stage tree-climbing protest