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The millions of euros of public money pumped into the renovation of the Binche coal preparation plant since 2008 are still not making any difference a decade later.
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At the end of 2014, the demolition hammer threatened the modernist concrete mine shaft of Saint-Albert in the village of Péronnes-lez-Binche.
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