It is a bond forged during the miners' strike 40 years ago. One of the drivers was Wayne Thomas, who experienced the strike as a young miner and now, at 63, is vice-president of the UK National Union ...

An avalanche of rain-loosened coal slag cascaded down a Welsh mountainside today, burying a school, shops and homes in this mining village.

The faces of the stodgy, soot-laden houses of the little mining town of Mountain Ash were ugly and dirty as ever. But the faces of the miners, and their families, were scrubbed clean and the mines ...

These were the two last pedal cars crafted at the Bargoed factory [Austin Pedal Car Company] If you were a child in the mid-20th Century, the odds are you hankered after an Austin Pedal Car. Over the ...

When Mike Jackson and 26 of his gay friends from London walked into a remote Welsh miner’s club, they were met with stoney cold silence. ‘The whole crowd stopped talking – then one person started ...

The end of the miners' strike 40 years ago and a well-known Welsh artist are the inspirations for a new fashion collection. Dewi Bowen was known for capturing iconic scenes of his hometown Merthyr ...

’Wales in America’ exhibit on display at Anthracite Heritage Museum through end of May. A portrait of John F. Davis is part of the ’Wales in America’ display. Davis, a Welsh immigrant, is credited for ...

David Hasselhoff has paid tribute to the victims of this week's mining disaster in South Wales. The Britain's Got Talent judge, who is currently dating 31-year-old Welsh girl Hayley Roberts, urged ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The bodies of all four miners missing after a flash flood in a south Wales coal mine have been found, emergency services said on Friday. The mood over the small Swansea Valley ...

If you were a child in the mid-20th Century, the odds are you hankered after an Austin Pedal Car. Over the course of 22 years one pedal car company helped revive both the economy and the wellbeing of ...