As an inquiry into how South Yorkshire Police dealt with the Battle of Orgreave has been launched, pictures show where a lively and vibrant Barnsley community once thrived. Dodworth Colliery was the ...

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A George Cross awarded to a mineworker for his gallantry in rescuing a man trapped underground at a colliery is to be sold at auction. Charles Smith was honoured for helping to save Charles Liversedge ...

Plans to build 92 homes on a former colliery have been rejected due to coal needing to be extracted from the site beforehand. Applicants the Yorkshire Mining Company planned to open cast around 10,000 ...

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Housebuilder Harron Homes Yorkshire has purchased a 16-acre plot in Pontefract as part of plans to delivers nearly 130 homes on a disused colliery site. The development on the former Prince of Wales ...

Miners at a West Yorkshire colliery are preparing to go to court in a dispute over new working practices. About 350 workers at the Kellingley pit are staging a 24-hour stoppage against plans to change ...

Miner Kevin McDonagh holds the last piece of coal he cut as he leaves after his final shift at Kellingley Colliery on its last day of operation: The last shift at Kellingley Colliery near Castleford ...

A £60m newspaper printing plant is to be built on the site of the former Dinnington colliery in South Yorkshire. Johnston Press, one of the UK's largest publishers of local newspapers, has bought 10 ...