Next month will mark four decades since the year-long 1984-5 miners’ dispute came to its dismal end, with defeated strikers returning to work ...

Tory MP David Simmonds urged the Government to learn ‘some of the lessons that we need to draw out’ of coal pit closures for ...

Ministers should “draw out” lessons from Thatcher-era coal mine closures in the move away ... the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland could have “strikingly similar social ...

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A mine shaft collapse has created a 50ft wide crater on farmland near Bishop Auckland, the The Mining Remediation Authority has said.

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The defunct mine shaft was discovered in Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, once a coal town. A member of the residents' family later found that they had received a letter from the former Coal Authority ...

The Coal Authority said they were not against the development but asked for investigations to be undertaken to establish any risks caused by former mining in the area. The sandstone building ...

Ahead of their show at Glasgow’s Pavilion Theatre on March 13, we sat down with legendary radio pair Mark and Lard to hear ...

Just Transition Commissioner Richard Hardy addressed the Scottish Affairs Committee at ... “I lived through the coal mining closures of the 1980s and 1990s in Yorkshire. That felt very much ...