At the bottom of a long-abandoned mine, 50 metres below the surface, one company searches for rare Welsh gold, attracted by ...

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

Methane extinguished the miners' lamps, plunging 148 men and boys into instant darkness, and millions of gallons of water from old workings at the disused Paradise pit came roaring through the ...

WELSH National Opera (WNO) chorus members have renewed their industrial action ballot over proposed job cuts, Equity union said today. The chorus will continue to take action short of strike from ...

"We should make our own choices. We don't need politicians. We don't need the Welsh government to tell us what we can eat, what we can't eat, what we can drink, what we can't drink, how we should ...

Richard Jenkins is a tricky teenager. He lives with his sister and brother-in-law in a Welsh mining town near Port Talbot, his mother long since dead, his father an alcoholic. This is 1942 and ...

Blackwood Miners’ Institute could be run independently ... a last-minute lifeline through the receipt of £210,000 from the Welsh Government. The new transition plan agreed on Wednesday March ...

The Welsh Labour government’s Health and Social Care Bill (Wales) received royal assent today. The legislation means that care for looked after children will only be provided by the public sector, ...

the miners lamp commemorating the 50th anniversary hangs in the church." St James' Heritage and Environment Group, which has kindly supplied information about the disaster and the anniversary to ...

A PUBLIC body has come under fire for handing out a £10,000 grant to “decolonise” the Welsh cake. Arts Council of Wales granted £9,952 to a researcher in 2023 for a year-long project titled ...

Mullen was born in England to an Irish father and a Welsh mother, but spent much of his early childhood living in the Portuguese coastal town of Lagos, in the Algarve. This is where his interest ...

an image inspired by old photographs of Welsh miners. The first of these 1oz coins came up for auction towards the end of March and sold for £20,000 — nearly 8.5 times the current gold price. A ...