Ministers may want to sweep these events under the carpet, but the scars of the dispute and the subsequent closure programme remain on the memories, communities and landscapes of all coalfield communities.
Every judge worth listening to makes Djokovic favourite to win the final, favourite to win Wimbledon and favourite to add the US Open to his Australian title for the first grand slam sweep in tennis since Rod Laver's second one in 1969.
This time she does connect cleanly with a slog sweep, but can only pick out Perry in the deep.
It feels like a long time since one film was guaranteed to sweep the awards, and it's been over 20 years since one film won all the major Academy Awards (The Silence of the Lambs, 1991, thank you, internet).
BBC Production, in contrast, is "humming along very nicely", and Bannister clearly relishes the vast sweep of the empire he now presides over as chief executive.
Mr Adams will sweep home in West Belfast, while Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's education minister, will have little difficulty in Mid Ulster.
There is even talk that he might finally turn to politics and if there was an election tomorrow he would probably sweep to power with the kind of majority that would make even Tony Blair blush.
Fine Gael and Labour's strategy is crystal clear: they are riding high in the polls and would sweep to power if there was election next week.
The world No1, who has lost only twice all year, needs the title for a career grand slam, not to mention the second leg of a potential sweep of all four majors this year, a feat last celebrated when Rod Laver did it for the second time 46 years ago.
McConnell and his allies then set their sights on a two-month Patriot Act extension that would buy further time to negotiate while clearing the sunset deadline for Section 215, the piece of the law that enables the NSA to sweep millions of Americans' phone records without a warrant.
Failure to release the full report would suggest that Hunt was keen to sweep the ABC's findings under the carpet.
