However, other colliery sites in the area are gradually coming back to life, often as business parks, nature conservation areas or in the case of the old Ollerton pit site, an "energy village" of housing, offices and light industry all built along environmentally conscious lines.

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This tremendous wealth stems from the village's decision to basically abandon agriculture for industry, building factories on the farming land.

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Cakarel says he knew that if he was going to succeed in his quest to bring quality cinema to the global village he would have to enlist some of the industry's top brass.

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Mr. MacLean ably documents this phenomenon at residences such as 55-77 Bethune St. in the West Village, where there appeared to be a financial services industry cocktail party under way as Mr. MacLean flew over.

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Over the last decade, a small, community-centric tourism industry has sprung up here, with local guides leading village-to-village treks through the mountainous farmland.

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Rozina Akter, a 21-year-old seamstress who was working at Phantom Apparels, a factory on the fourth floor of Rana Plaza, at the time of the disaster, says the industry offered her family a salvation of sorts, as they faced starvation in her old village.

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