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

The closure of Kellingley Colliery 10 years ago marked the end of deep-pit coal mining in Britain - here is its history.

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.

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 “Soul Full of Coal Dust,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hamby tells the story of black lung and the mining companies who refused to take responsibility for its harm.

The closure of Kellingley Colliery 10 years ago marked the end of deep-pit coal mining in Britain - here is its history. Kellingley Colliery, known as the ‘Big K’, was a deep coal mine and was ...