Can low carbon jobs really level up post-industrial towns? We went to Bolsover to find out

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 The old days: Markham Colliery, near Bolsover, in 1993. It's No Game / flickr, CC BY-SA
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The old days: Markham Colliery, near Bolsover, in 1993. It's No Game / flickr, CC BY-SA

In 2019 Boris Johnson demolished the so-called 'red wall' of northern England as scores of Midlands and northern towns voted Conservative for the first time in decades. Bolsover was a key brick in that...

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