Some try to match the closure programme to meet the Staff needs.
Soon the speed and scope of the closure programme will increase.
It was only possible two years ago to negotiate serious closure programmes and put them into action.
Their plight is an indirect result of the closure programme.
With the beginning of the closure programme in the pits the situation changed dramatically.
However, the last few years have seen a major closure programme of deep mines in Wales as elsewhere.
Bilsthorpe itself could now be a casualty of the closure program, on the drive for a competitive mining industry.
The investigation was significant because the European Commission needed to give approval for part of the closure programme.
The post office was closed in 2008 as part of Royal Mail's closure national programme to cut costs.
The outcry was such that on Oct. 19 the government postponed part of the closure programme.