He tried to justify the award by writing serious novels, but subsequently also wrote detective thrillers, light comedies, novels based on cricket, and science fiction, to which he had been passionately devoted in his early teens. On leaving the army he renewed a teenage ambition toward being a writer, and in 1947, on the basis of an unfinished novel, won an Atlantic Award, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, which enabled him to devote himself to writing for a year. He left school at sixteen to work as a local government clerk until being called up for army service in 1941, and spent the following four and a half years with the Royal Corps of Signals, in Gibraltar, North Africa, Italy, and Austria. His early years were spent in Lancashire and Hampshire. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 2, 2023.John Christopher (Sam Youd) was born in England in April 1922, during an unseasonable snowstorm. 24 warning about a improperly maintained conveyor pull cord, and an April 19 warning about an incorrectly installed roof-monitoring device.
Gary O'Toole, an official with the department's safety branch, says the number of citations issued to the company isn't surprising given the frequency of inspections and the complexities of underground mining.īefore it reopened last year the mine was shuttered in March 2020 amid slumping coal prices and roof collapses that led to repeated government stop-work orders.īetween mid-January and April 26, the mine received nine warnings, nine compliance orders and three administrative penalties or fines. The department says in an email that the citations handed to mine owner Kameron Coal Management Ltd. The Labour Department said Monday the mine had received 23 warnings, 28 compliance orders and 11 administrative penalties or fines since reopening in mid-September. No one was hurt in Sunday's fire at the Donkin mine, where provincial safety officials ordered a halt to underground production. Nova Scotia's Labour Department says a stop-work order remains in effect as the investigation continues into the cause of a weekend fire at a Cape Breton coal mine.
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