There's no Whiter place in England and Wales than Easington in County Durham. As a survey finds White working class people feel forgotten and dejected, what do the people in this former colliery town think?

Where Easington colliery stood, there is now virtually nothing. Just the jet black monument to a disappeared past, made from the cages that once took thousands of men underground.
Face east and there is the cold North Sea. Look west and there are the streets and streets of cramped Victorian colliery homes, the inspiration for many a Geordie folk song. But the streets are not as they once were.
This is Easington in County Durham, racially the whitest place in England and Wales according to the only reliable measure we have, the 2001 Census. You may have seen it in the cinema: it was the set for Billy Elliot, the story of a miner's lad who joins the Royal Ballet.
But it's also the local authority where you are most likely to meet someone who is white and least likely to meet someone who is from any other ethnic background.
And there is a simple reason.
Easington was one of a string of colliery villages that rose as the pit shafts were sunk in the 19th Century. The East Durham population exploded and communities were born. But when the pits went in the 1990s, many of those who could leave did - but nobody else moved in.
If you want to find out what the British White working classes think, then this area of the country is a pretty good place to start.

Loss of trust
On the way up to the pit monument, past markers of key moments in the area's history, I meet Tommy Butler.
"Aye without a doubt, there's no ways about it, I'm working class. To think what I've done for 34 years down the pit, man and boy.
"When I left school in the 60s you could say, I'll go to the steelworks, or I'll go to the pit. I went to the pit because all my family were there.
"There was always something for you, but look around the corner now, there's nothing, that's why you have the kids on the streets drinking."
According to a Newsnight poll for the BBC's special White season, a majority of white working class Britons feel nobody speaks for people like them. In most areas covered by the poll working class people were more negative about Britain than people from other backgrounds.