Visitors will get the chance to winch down 140 metres underground to visit Santa’s grotto at the National Coal Mining Museum in Yorkshire.

One miner has died and another rescued after being trapped underground following a roof collapse in a mine operated by UK Coal Plc in northern England, the company said on Tuesday.

A Wakefield coal mining museum has halted its underground tours after emergency services attended. Emergency services attended the National Coal Mining Museum for England, in Overton , at 3.22pm ...

A FREE new exhibition called Dancing coalfields is marking the 40th anniversary of the end of the British miners’ strike at the National Coal Mining Museum for England.

YORKSHIRE, England (AP) — Contestants in Yorkshire competed on Monday in the “World Coal Carrying Championships,” racing with heavy sacks of coal on their back. Women carried 20 kilograms ...

Ten years since the closure of Hatfield Colliery in Stainforth, the penultimate mine to close in Yorkshire, "people don't forget", says ex-miner Keith Allsopp. "It's a mining community and ...

In coal mining communities, black lung has long been considered an “old man’s disease,” one to be almost expected after enough years underground. But his son was diagnosed much younger, at ...