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"Now we've got a little pen torch, just in case, whereas the old pitmen's lamps used to have a little bulb, but if your battery fused you were up the creek really."

Towering over a high street in a former mining heartland, a statue of a pitman reminds Cornwall of its industrial past.

About 30,000 engineering workers from factories in the surrounding area joined the pitmen outside the Saltley Gate coke works, which held a stockpile of coal used to fuel power stations.

Regardless, I told the pitmen that I’d be back for another round of bones.

A fraudster who made thousands by forging works by "pitman painter" Norman Cornish has been ordered to pay back £1.