For many, Easington is shorthand for the devastation wreaked by Thatcher on whole industries and communities.
If he returns to Sierra Leone, where Ebola has wreaked havoc, he will have little opportunity to continue his sprinting.
The impact of the crisis was the peacetime equivalent of the devastation wreaked on public sector finances by war itself.
As soon as the results came in, the scale of the devastation wreaked on the Lib Dems became clear –they suffered a near total wipe-out retaining only one of 11 MEPs.
Thoronka also revealed his feelings at discovering the devastation Ebola has wreaked on his family back home, who had adopted him after the death of his birth parents.
The many legacies of the strike, and of the defeat of the National Union of Mineworkers, still divide Britain to an extent often difficult to comprehend, such is the scale of the changes that the defeat of 1985 has wreaked upon British society.
Once again, the government has wreaked havoc on civilians with a campaign of indiscriminate bombing from the air.
Mr Gates knows IBM's history, and the damage wreaked by its caution, better than anyone.
In many countries, both rich and poor, it has started to feel that way.Well before a volcano wreaked havoc with Europe's air transport, travellers across the continent were coping with the effects of labour disputes that had an old-fashioned tinge.
One is the carnage wreaked by the expenses scandal.
But its impact was still horrendous to behold, and came after a few days when nature had wreaked havoc across Asia.The terrifying prospect remains of more ruptures along the same fault-line that produced the 2004 Asian tsunami.
