UK Coal shareholders are voting on the final stages of a plan to split the firm in two which would see its underfunded schemes take a controlling stake in one of the new companies.
The proposals would divide UK Coal into a mining division and a property division with the former retaining responsibility for the pension schemes which are approximately £430m in deficit. The s...
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