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Coal is an important part of Yorkshire's industrial history, and it could be an important part of its future too if experiments in generating 'clean coal' through carbon capture and storage are successful. Rachel visited the National Coal Museum in Wakefield this week to meet with the Director and staff, talking about how we can preserve some of the most important industrial and social heritage of our area and how we can move forward to invest in new technologies, high skill jobs and apprenticeships.

If you haven't visited the museum it is well worth a trip, not least to experience going down in to the pit to see how it works and the conditions that men women and children had to work in, especially in the 19th century.