Former miner Dave Drury, who started work at Welbeck Colliery in Mansfield when he was 16, watched the Budget at his pub, the ...

LONDON -- Britain's last coal-fired power plant is closing on Monday, ending 142 years of coal-generated electricity in the nation that sparked the Industrial Revolution. The Ratcliffe-on-Soar station ...

Its last delivery of 1,650 tonnes of coal at the start of this summer barely supplied 500,000 homes for eight hours. "It's like the end of a era," said Becky, 25, serving £4 pints behind the bar of ...

Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station cooling towers. Image credit: Uniper Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, near Nottingham UK, will today close its doors for the last time, marking the closure of the UK’s ...