A former miner is to chair a review into the regeneration of coal mining areas in Yorkshire. Barnsley MP and ex-miner ... the government has invested £1.5bn in initiatives to support coalfield ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, the posts of shadow chancellor and shadow home secretary are likely to be held by two other MPs who represent seats in that swathe of the Yorkshire coalfield between Leeds and Doncaster.

The term “Riding” means one-third, so that the area dealt with is only one-third of the county of Yorkshire; but as it includes the densely populated coalfield to the south and the limestone ...

The Coalfields Regeneration Trust , which has support from more than 40 cross-party MPs including 12 from Yorkshire, will outline the ongoing challenges that face coalfield ...

"Without it we would not have been able to fulfil our ambition to become the Coalfield Line and to be able to tell the story of South Yorkshire's coalfields because Cortonwood is totally pivotal ...

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 ...