The National Coal ... miners refused to follow colleagues in areas like Yorkshire and South Wales out on strike. There was violence on picket lines as thousands of police officers from across the ...

It could also breathe new life into many mines that have been closed since the decline of the UK coal industry in the late 1980s and offer a cheaper alternative to vertical farming in giant ...

Across the world, coal had been ... had to get out of the mine as quickly as possible. Canaries were still in use in British mines until they were phased out in the 1980s. A miner with a canary ...

A Scottish Labour MP has compared the closure of Scotland’s only oil refinery to the “social devastation” caused by the ...

Whilst Scotland is home to some of the UK’s cheapest properties ... its population steadily fall since the decline of coal mining in the 1980s. But now Cumnock in Ayrshire has been named ...