Wales Online reports the former chief executive of Pike River Coal of New Zealand, Peter Whittall faces 12 criminal charges over the 2010 mine explosion that killed 29 miners. An enormous methane explosion ripped through the mine near Greymouth on November 19 2010 and the state-owned mine has since been put up for sale. Whittal's lawyers maintain that he would never do anything to put men who worked with him at risk and that he will fight being scapegoated now.

Next Friday marks the 98th anniversary of Britain’s worst pit disaster. Wendy Horton speaks to the descendants of a miner who worked in Senghenydd’s Universal Colliery – and their plans to make a film to remember an incident which still haunts th...

Councillors voted in favour of the project to turn Tower into a huge opencast mine and excavate around six million tonnes of coal. The scheme, which will create up to 200 full-time jobs, will also restore former industrial spoil tips, old pits and iron