Alyson and Chris Austin, who live on the edge of the site, said the plans would be the "ultimate betrayal". "We could see this coming when we sat in the public inquiry in 2004," Alison said. "We ...

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There are plans to create a £400m train testing site on the former Nant Helen opencast mine.

New plans have been submitted for the restoration of the Ffos y Fran site in Merthyr Tydfil but locals who have lived beside ...

Plans for a new restoration scheme for the Ffos-y-Fran opencast coal mine in Merthyr Tydfil have been revealed. Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd has applied for a revised scheme for the final restoration ...

There are plans to create a £400m train testing site on the former Nant Helen opencast mine. Empty since January 2014, there is now hope there could be a new operator for the site in Pool.

Hazaribag: A criminal gang opened firing at the CCL's Birsa outsourcing open cast mining site under Urimari police station in Hazaribag Wednesday night for extortion causing panic among locals and ...

Neighbours of the UK's last opencast mine say they have been betrayed by new plans to restore the site. Ffos-y-Fran's operators Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd were originally granted planning ...