Plans have been submitted to build 20 new homes on the site of a former coal mine in Pontefract. Developers Harron Homes have ...

Three thousand people joined a march through the town of Knottingley on Saturday to mark the closure of nearby Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire, the last remaining deep coal mine in Britain.

Coal mines once dominated the landscape across Staffordshire. The Foxfield Colliery, which opened near Blythe Bridge in 1880 and closed in 1965, is one of the few sites in the county to still have its ...

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The No 2 Winding Tower at Kellingley Colliery in Yorkshire is demolished. Danny Lawson/PA Images/Getty Images ...