The priests and nuns in the camp proved that they had real strength of character. One rarely met that except in deportees who were animated by faith in an ideal. Apart from the clerics, only the active members of the underground, or the militant communists, had that spirit. Many of the ecclesiasts were executed shortly after they arrived.

The dispute stems from Total awarding the contract to build a new desulphurisation unit at the Lindsey site to Italian company IREM.

Then ancient Skiddaw, stern and proud, / In sullen majesty replying, / Thus spake from out of his helm of cloud […]

...were anyone to have seen them stumbling under the light of the newly risen moon they would have found little splendour in the appearance of either, but Big Hugh was without doubt the most trampish and tousled of the pair with his long scruffy overcoat muddy and besmirched with filth and sickness, his hair splatched across his chalky face and his eyelids hovering endlessly on an eerie borderline between waking and sleeping.