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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ian Lavery is a
British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament
for Wansbeck since the 2010 general election. He was previously the
President of the National Union of Mineworkers. Lavery has lived in
Ashington, once the largest coal mining village in Europe, all of his
life. After leaving school, Lavery started on a youth training scheme,
before working in the construction industry. Following a recruitment
campaign by the National Coal Board, he commenced work at Lynemouth
Colliery in January 1980. In July 1980, he started a mining craft
apprentice and started working at the coalface. In 1981, he was
transferred to Ellington Colliery and went to college, receiving a HNC
in Mining