Our National Chairman, Mrs Wilma Brooks has received notification that The Right Hon the Lord Kennedy of Southwark has agreed to be our President for 2020. Roy Kennedy was a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Southwark from 1983 and served a number of roles for the party in the midlands until being made [...]
It is with the greatest sadness that we must announce the death of Michael Bryer Ash Michael has been an enormous figure in the coal trade for over seventy years, and during his long career which in commercial terms was with his family company G. Bryer Ash and then The Western Fuel Company, he has [...]
Our Chairman, Dr Clive Rix has received notification that The Right Hon the Lord Howard of Lympne CH QC has agreed to be our President for 2019. Michael Howard was a Conservative Member for Folkestone and Hythe between 1983 until 2010, when he was elevated to the Lords. Called to the Bar in 1964 he [...]
The CTBA is delighted to announce it has appointed as its National Chairman for 2019, Dr Clive Rix. Clive has been a freelance business adviser since 1996. Initially, most of his work was in the coal sector but more recently he has specialised in strategic planning, governance, regulation and competition issues. He joined the then [...]
The CTBA's Annual Festival Dinner took place in the familiar surroundings of the Copthorne Tara Hotel in Kensington, London on 3rd December. We were honoured to be joined again by our 2011 President Lord Foulkes, who spoke in place of our current President Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan, who was sadly unable to attend and sent [...]
