Graham Morgan, chairman of Cinderford Regeneration Board, said some of the buildings left in the former coal mining area had "not been touched" since the mid-1960s.

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Her first-person narrator, Katniss Everdeen, who hails from a shabby coal-mining area, is a tough, resourceful girl, a huntress who protects her family.

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Recent events in Donetsk, the coal-mining area in the east that is a hotbed of anti-Kuchma feeling and happens also to be the country's most populous region, have been particularly murky.

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Wayne Thomas said the rise in the price of coal and the quality of the anthracite in the local area had seen mining become more profitable in recent years and led to a "resurgence of interest".

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