UP to two or three years ago disputes in the coal mining industry in Great Britain usually involved a confusion of differences of opinion about facts, differences about principles and conflicts of ...

Britain will ban new coal mines in a landmark decision that forms part of Ed Miliband’s drive to hit net zero. The Government said it was bringing forward a decision to restrict new licences ...

‘It was a time when the UK’s energy economy was changing ... book Coal Country charts the decline of Scotland’s mining industry. ‘Coal was being pushed out of areas like domestic heating ...

Flood water from a disused mine is being used as a renewable source of heating for the first time in Wales. The business near ...

My town wasn't a mining village, but no-one who grew up in coal country could be completely untouched by the industry. It's the same in many other regions of the UK, and indeed around the world.

It comes just months after Energy Secretary Ed Miliband declared he had banned new coal mines in Britain to 'send a signal to the world' on climate change. For the last two days, ministers have ...

Glencore said on Thursday it had restructured its coal business by moving its recently acquired Canadian mines into a single ...

Images and Voices from Scottish Coal Mining Communities' exhibition is free to visit and runs until August 23.