Vonnegut mentioned his “canary-bird-in-the-coal-mine theory” again in a 1973 interview with Playboy. Artists, he explained, ...

Wrexham University has awarded honorary fellowships to two individuals and a charity. The university gave the honours to the Wrexham Miners’ Project, Lord Barry Jones, and Rachel Clacher CBE during ...

Miners are once again digging for gold at Clogau-St David's ... At the bottom of a long-abandoned mine, 50 metres below the surface, one company searches for rare Welsh gold, attracted by soaring ...

The last remaining miners welfare hall in the Rhondda Fach will be saved after it has been awarded a grant worth millions of pounds from the lottery. The Grade II listed Tylorstown Welfare Hall is ...

The starting point, the Miners Arms, is where Richard’s parents first met, and the actress Sian Owen, his niece, has a poem to “Uncle Rich” framed on the wall amongst old family photographs.

‘I was informed from birth that the toughest thing on earth was a Welsh miner,’ wrote Burton in his diary in September 1971. ‘I believed it and it got me into more fights than one would have thought ...

He ended his walk at the Durham Miners’ Gala, “pulsing with the working-class heart ... Morris-Campbell’s grandmother turned up at his front door with his great-grandfather’s Davy lamp in a Lidl bag. ...

He was the Hollywood star who became one half of the most famous couple in the world, but before that Richard Burton rose to fame while living in Hampstead. The son of a Welsh miner - one of 13 ...

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 ...