Outside court, current national secretary of the NUM, Chris Kitchen, said the action had so far cost the YATF around pounds 50,000.

Mr Scargill, 74, sued the National Union of Mineworkers Yorkshire Area Trust Fund (YATF) over a range of expenses he claimed he was owed when he worked for them in a pounds 26,000-a-year role after he retired as NUM national president.

A unique synchronicity in its designated events placed Jordanians on a time and space endeavor that allowed them to enjoy an artistic spectrum of photos, video installation and music in a single day.Supported by the Brussels-based Young Arab Theatre Fund (YATF), Mondrian Stichting (MS) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Amman Meeting Points is the beginning of a new a artistic platform filtering through Makan.Aimed at fusing the spirit of young Jordanian artists with their counterparts in the region and beyond, and to form a dynamic collective vigor of art skills, the forum will also offer the participating artists free studio space in a 70-year-old house with a view of the Citadel.