Nottingham Post published Was missing miner entombed to cover up colliery safety lapse?

JUNE 18, 1988, was shaping up like any other Saturday in my life as a weekly newspaper editor.Little did I know that one of the most fascinating stories I would ever cover was about to fall in my lap.I popped into the newspaper office – closed on Saturdays – to go through the mail in the hope of kick-starting the production machine required to fill 18 broadsheet pages by the following Friday with news from Ilkeston and the surrounding villages.The mail looked like it did every week..