Next month the former pitmen of Usworth Colliery, near Washington, will proudly march through the streets of Durham before receiving a prestigious honour. Having paraded shoulder-to-shoulder with ...

A FORMER east Durham colliery site has been transformed into a memorial garden to mark the 50th anniversary of a pit disaster which claimed the lives of 83 miners. Moving tributes will be paid to ...

LONDON, June 3.--A dispatch received here this afternoon from Durham says that a fire broke out in the Philadelphia Colliery, situated near that city, at noon to-day. View Full Article in ...