After the loss of French and Belgian coalfields to the Allied war effort, Welsh coal was all the more important. This meant that the war saw some form of prosperity return to the south Wales ...

A geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is "incredibly difficult" to monitor them all. Skewen lies within an old coal mining ...

After the loss of French and Belgian coalfields to the Allied war effort, Welsh coal was all the more important. This meant that the war saw some form of prosperity return to the south Wales ...