Two men in court charged with charity theft

The two men are accused of diverting £150,000 from the charity, which ran a convalescent home in Lincolnshire.

Neil Greatrex, 59, the former president of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers,and Mick Stevens, 59, general secretary of the union's Nottinghamshire branch, are alleged to have used the charity money to pay for improvements to their homes.

The trial at Nottingham Crown Court is expected to last more than two weeks.