Norman West
Norman West was a British Labour Party politician.
Born in Worsborough near Barnsley, West studied at Barnsley Grammar School before becoming a coal miner at Barrow Colliery, the local mine in Worsborough. He joined the National Union of Mineworkers, and supported Arthur Scargill in his early years.
West also became active in the Labour Party, and was elected to South Yorkshire County Council, and then at the 1984 European Parliament election as the MEP for Yorkshire South. In this role, he supported the UK miners' strike, and was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group.
West stood down as an MEP in 1998, and remained resident in Worsborough until his death in 2009.
