Steel research chief helps firms test their mettle - Northern Echo article
"ONLY the stoniest of hearts can remain unmoved by the words - or more particularly to the stirring tune - of the miners' hymn Gresford, which commemorates a 1934 north Wales pit disaster when an explosion killed 266 men and boys.
Tony Benn said that every time it is played the song should act as a reminder of the enormous debt we owe to pitmen who worked to make Britain an industrial power.
For Chris McDonald, boss of the Materials Processing Institute in Middlesbrough, mere mention of the word 'Gresford' has him welling up with tears."
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11 April 2015
