But other coalfield areas have missed out on funding. Last year Wakefield Council in West Yorkshire said it was "extremely disappointed" the government had rejected its bid for £19m of levelling ...

MANY Yorkshire former coalfield areas are still deeply deprived despite hundreds of millions of pounds of regeneration cash – prompting "serious concerns" over whether taxpayers got value for money.

The use of the miners’ standard electric hand lamp is steadily increasing over the Yorkshire coalfield. On a recent visit to one of the largest South Yorkshire mines the smell of camphor in the ...

What are your thoughts now twenty years on? "Well when I go through the Yorkshire coalfield these days I see it is infinitely greener than it ever was. "Now, if all the government had done was to ...

As an idealistic young miner living in the heart of the Yorkshire coalfield, Tony Fletcher wholeheartedly backed the strike and was arrested several times while picketing. But the strike also ...

The story of a royal visit to Yorkshire is to come under the spotlight ... advised the King and Queen to tour the coalfield areas of the West Riding in order to calm the possibility of further ...

By the turn of the 20th century, ‘coal was king’ in Barnsley – the capital of the South Yorkshire coalfield. The rich Silkstone seam was worked at several pits in the area, which had ...

COALFIELD Resources has confirmed that it expects to carry out a fundraising to cover the costs of its creation out of the former UK Coal business in the next few months. The Doncaster-based group ...