A new film explores the role of women in sustaining the miners’ strike, including in Yorkshire and how many are still active ...

The iron-willed women who fought for their communities during the Miners Strike will feature in a new film coming soon.

Within hours after 240,000 tickets to his four August concerts at Giants Stadium went on sale at $18.50 apiece, they were sold out.

People have been on strike over pay at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield since August [BBC] Funding for the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield is to be "reviewed" until strike action ...

Funding for the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield is to be "reviewed" until strike action over workers' pay is resolved. Wakefield Council will also be asked to urge the Charity Commission to ...

A year of Cold War conflict, industrial action, and political pop, 1985 was a landmark year for pop music, but which songs held the number-one spot for longest?

Council funding for the National Coal Mining Museum has been "withheld" until strike action in a row over workers' pay is resolved. Staff at the tourist attraction in Wakefield began a four-week ...

A North East MP and former miner has reacted furiously after a leading Conservative councillor claimed the North East has ...

A Northumberland MP and former miner has reacted furiously after a leading Conservative councillor claimed the North East has ...

NEXT millennium you’ll have to search quite hard/ to find my slab behind the family dead.”With these words, poet Tony ...

David Waddington has spent years researching the mining industry and coal communities. Now he’s written a history of the pit ...

Harrison was always faithful to his vocation. “I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director,” he said. “Poet covers ...