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The family of a teenager killed alongside two others in car crash have said they were "proud to call him son". Koby Jones, 18 ...
THE day was March 29, 1982 and a little-known horse called Flockton Grey would cause the betting scandal of the century. It came out out of nowhere to lap the field and win by a ridiculous 20 LENGT… ...
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Ms Fisher will also ask for delegated authority to deliver the Huncoat Garden Village project following the council entering a grant funding agreement with Homes England for £29,897,722.
WEST END COLLIERY DISASTER. Share full article. Aug. 13, 1885. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from August 13, 1885, Page 5 Buy Reprints.
The colliery was sunk in 1908 on the outskirts of Maltby in South Yorkshire. Three years later a model town of more than 1,000 houses was built for the new workforce. Image caption, ...
CARDIFF, Dec. 10.--A great explosion occurred this morning at the Penygrrig New Colliery, in the Rhondda Valley. It is believed that 87 persons have perished. An exploring party has discovered 16 ...
The colliery site has become grassland, with some woodland to the south, after restoration proposals were approved in 1998. The country park has been proposed for a 28-hectare (69-acre) site on ...
The owners of a former colliery tip in Wrexham have been given more time to remove millions of tonnes of waste. Bersham Glenside received permission five years ago to flatten the former Bersham ...
As central Queensland firm Bounty Mining enters voluntary administration, the miners union says hundreds of workers will be affected by the resulting shutdown of Cook Colliery in the Bowen Basin.
Four colliery cats who were feline unemployed after the UK's last deep coal pit closed have started new careers.. Feisty Florence, Betty, Leia and Sola, were the last working animals in a British ...
A REPORT, by Dr. John Haldane, on the causes of death in colliery explosions, with special reference to the Tylors-town, Brancepeth, and Micklefield explosions, was published in a Blue-book a few ...