An avalanche of rain-loosened coal slag cascaded down a Welsh mountainside today, burying a school, shops and homes in this mining village.
GLYNNEATH (Reuters) - Two decades ago, Britain was shutting collieries and coal miners were staging desperate and sometimes violent strikes in a vain attempt to save their jobs. Now, near-record high ...
About 800,000 homes and businesses across Wales are being leafleted as part of an awareness campaign around coal tip safety following two significant landslides in recent years. People will be ...
Welsh scientists have mapped the hidden microbes thriving in south Wales’s abandoned coal mines, helping to overcome obstacles to using mine water to heat Britain’s homes. With an estimated ...
In 1966, a spoil-heap landslide crushed Pantglas Primary School in the coal-mining village of Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil, ...
Today we are talking to Professor Brad Evans about his new book How Black Was My Valley: Poverty and Abandonment in a Post-Industrial Heartland. It’s all about growing up poor in a Welsh coal mining ...
When Sir Tom Jones struck gold in 1965 with his first number one, It's Not Unusual, his father was still working down the ...
Music legend Sir Tom Jones was shocked when his father continued to work down the coal mines in Wales, even after he had found fame during the 1960s.
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