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A miner sits in the changing rooms at the Riccall pit where coal production ceased Tuesday October 26, 2004, making it the last colliery in the Selby coalfield to close. The Selby mines in North Yorkshire have churned out more than 120 million tonnes of coal in the last 21 years but more recently have run up huge losses, forcing owner UK Coal to close them down. See PA story INDUSTRY Coal. PA Photo: John Giles.