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 ...

The Welsh Government has begun recruitment for the Chief Executive Officer of the new Disused Tips Authority for Wales.

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 ...

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 ...

For days the rain had been falling, soaking the bleak Welsh coal-mining village of Aberfan and the 800-ft. slag heap towering above it like a black, oozing Everest. Then one morning last week, David ...

When Sir Tom Jones struck gold in 1965 with his first number one, It's Not Unusual, his father was still working down the ...

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 ...