[1] In a 2009 underground visit, Roger Helmer, then a European MP in the East Midlands region, stated he hoped the newly developed Deep Soft resource would provide coal extraction for a further ten years.

[5] In 2015, the Thoresby Colliery Benevolent Fund, established in 1951, was wound up with £57,142 surplus which was distributed to five different local charities.

[6][7] The site is being reclaimed and redeveloped by Harworth Group, with a ten-year plan into housing and associated infrastructure, named Thoresby Vale, Edwinstowe.

Local MP Mark Spencer mentioned that provision was also needed for a doctors' surgery, and hoped that section 106 monies could be used to upgrade the nearby traffic island and establish a passenger rail service extension to the Robin Hood Line.

[14][15] The band was invited to deliver an open-air performance at Queen Elizabeth's Academy's 450-year anniversary celebration weekend of 16–17 June, 2011.