The past, present and future of Sacriston
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Jacqui Hodgson reflects on a leading academic’s trip to give evidence about the community of Sacriston in County Durham to a committee of Lords as part of an investigation into failing high streets, and meets a man trying to breathe new life into the former mining village
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