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UK Coal UK Coal is to consider plans to reopen the Harworth colliery near Doncaster, and is also investing £100m to extend the lives of the Thoresby mine in Nottinghamshire and Kellingley in Yorkshire. 21-Apr-2008 UK Coal has submitted plans to Telford & Wrekin Council to extract 900,000 tonnes of coal from a new opencast mine near the Wrekin in Shropshire, with the creation of 40 jobs. 19-Dec-2007 UK Coal has confirmed plans for a £55m investment at Thoresby Colliery in Nottinghamshire, securing the future of 500 jobs until 2018. 11-Dec-2007 Helical Bar and UK Coal are planning to develop a £140m office campus for government civil servants at the Waverley and Orgreave site near Sheffield. 29-Nov-2007 UK Coal has announced that an unnamed distribution firm is planning to relocate up to 50 jobs to a new headquarters on its Asfordby Business Park site near Melton in Leicestershire over the next six months. 19-Oct-2007 UK Coal has secured government approval for the regeneration of the former Gascoigne Wood mine in Selby, which will create new office and distribution facilities. 20-Aug-2007 UK Coal has won planning permission to mine 3m tonnes of coal at Kellingley Colliery near Pontefract, securing the short-term future of 700 jobs until a £60m investment in the pit's Beeston seam is complete in a few years. 09-Aug-2007 UK Coal is considering plans to invest up to £50m at the Thoresby Colliery in Nottinghamshire, in order to extend its life and open up new coal reserves. 20-Jul-2007 UK Coal is to submit plans to extract more than 900,000 tonnes of coal from new open-cast mines in Shropshire. 02-Mar-2007 UK Coal is to sell the Maltby colliery in South Yorkshire to Hargreaves Services for £21m, securing the future of 470 jobs. 28-Feb-2007 UK Coal is planning to sell thousands of acres of land with a value of up to £800m for housing and commercial development over the next six years. 08-Nov-2006 UK Coal is considering plans to mothball the Harworth colliery in Nottinghamshire with the loss of up to 310 jobs, having been unable to secure a new sales contract. 14-Jun-2006 UK Coal is to shed 70 of the 300 jobs at the Harworth colliery in Nottinghamshire, but plans to close the site have been dropped. 20-Apr-2006 UK Coal has submitted plans to extend the opencast coal mine at Stobswood near Ellington, Northumberland. 01-Feb-2006 UK Coal has won planning permission from Durham County Council for a 121-acre opencast mine at Stony Heap, near Leadgate, with the creation of 40 jobs. 21-Dec-2005 UK Coal is planning to shed up to 80 jobs at Welbeck Colliery in Nottinghamshire, although some workers may transfer to Thoresby Colliery. 17-Nov-2005 UK Coal is to mothball the Rossington coal mine near Doncaster early next year, and some of the 300 staff are expected to be redeployed at other sites around the country. 08-Sep-2005 UK Coal is planning to mothball the Harworth colliery in Nottinghamshire, but hopes to transfer many of the 460 jobs to other pits. 20-Jul-2005 UK Coal has received a preliminary takeover approach that could value its coal mining business at up to £233m. 07-Apr-2005 UK Coal has secured the future of 520 jobs at Welbeck Colliery in Nottinghamshire, having agreed new working practices with the miners. 25-Feb-2005 UK Coal is to close Ellington colliery in Northumberland with the loss of 340 jobs, due to flooding problems. 27-Jan-2005 UK Coal is expected to shed jobs at the Kellingley Colliery near Pontefract, due to geological problems at one of the coal seams. 12-Jan-2005 UK Coal is to invest £20m in the installation of new coal cutting and other equipment at Daw Mill Colliery in Warwickshire. 21-Sep-2004 UK Coal is to receive about £15m of aid for eight of its coal mines, as part of the government's Coal Investment Aid scheme. 17-Sep-2004 UK Coal has warned that half of England's remaining deep mines could close if the government proceeds with an initiative to cut sulphur emissions at power stations. 15-Jun-2004 UK Coal has sold its Australian mining operations to ABN Amro Rothschild for £21m, and the proceeds will be used to develop coal fields in the UK. 05-Apr-2004 UK Coal is to introduce seven-day working at Kellingley colliery in Yorkshire with the creation of 240 jobs, but 70 jobs are being lost at its Ellington colliery and its Selby complex will close in June. 11-Dec-2003 UK Coal has secured a £36m government grant to invest in eight deep mines in Yorkshire, the Midlands and the north-east. 01-Dec-2003 UK Coal has won a £200m contract to supply up to 8m tonnes of coal to EdF Energy's West Burton and Cottam power stations. 13-Nov-2003 UK Coal has applied for a share of a £79m government grant to develop new coal reserves at eight mines and secure the future of 4,000 jobs. 08-Aug-2003 UK Coal is seeking permission to set up an opencast coal mine near the villages of Harlington and Bolton-on-Dearne in South Yorkshire. 03-Jul-2003 UK Coal is said to be planning to shed up to 100 jobs, as part of a restructuring that will create new divisions for mining, property management and household fuels. 06-Mar-2003 UK Coal has agreed a new business plan for the Harworth colliery in Nottinghamshire, securing the future of almost 500 jobs for the next five years. 16-Dec-2002 UK Coal is said to be considering plans to close the Maltby and Harworth collieries near Doncaster with the loss of up to 1,000 jobs. 19-Sep-2002 UK Coal is planning to close the Selby coalmine complex near York in 2004, with the loss of about 2,000 jobs. 16-Jul-2002 UK Coal is to shed a further 77 jobs at the Harworth Colliery near Worksop. 03-Jun-2002 UK Coal is to invest £1m at the Ellington colliery in Northumberland, in order to maintain production and secure the future of 400 jobs. 02-May-2002 UK Coal is to close the Prince of Wales colliery in Pontefract in September, with the loss of about 500 jobs. 31-Jan-2002 UK Coal is to review the financial viability of the Prince of Wales colliery near Pontefract, which could lead to the pit being closed with the loss of 500 jobs. 04-Dec-2001 UK Coal is planning to cut production costs in its mines by 20%, which could involve mothballing several collieries, while capital expenditure is expected to reach £60m this year. 14-Sep-2001 UK Coal is planning to reopen a disused rail line to carry coal from the new Codnor Park opencast mine in Derbyshire to power stations. 20-Jun-2001 RJB Mining is to change its name to UK Coal and is looking to obtain additional aid from the government's State Coal Aid scheme. 16-May-2001 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008