The Ukraine war sent shockwaves through global energy markets, driving up prices and leaving households across the UK ...

It comes just months after Energy Secretary Ed Miliband declared he had banned new coal mines in Britain to 'send a signal to the world' on climate change. For the last two days, ministers have ...

Less than twenty years later, and just a little way away, the worst British mining disaster ever befell ... the pit in 1893 that the last deep coal mine in Britain would close little more than ...

The crisis in Scunthorpe is a national disgrace. BritishSteel’s furnaces — Bess and Anne, the last two standing in the UK — ...

Many of the miners and their families were brought to the area by coal companies and settled in mining towns. They came to start a new life. Some did not speak English as their native language.

The Scunthorpe steelworks are barely a few dozen miles from the rich coal deposits of South Yorkshire. Yet perversely the future of virgin steelmaking in this country is dependent on two shiploads ...

The Scunthorpe site is the last maker of virgin steel in the UK and needs iron ore and coke, which is a derivative of coal, ...

Anne Scargill, the activist and campaigner who co-founded the national Women Against Pit Closures movement amid mass ...

Funding gaps, regulatory red tape and a shortage of skilled workers are stalling the UK’s mine-water heating projects.