Underground, at a depth of 1,000 ft (305m), is Birkshead drift mine where a lengthy system of conveyor belts snakes its way from where the stone is mined to where it is treated. "You've got to ...

It's a decade since four miners were killed when water rushed into a south Wales drift mine. Charles Breslin, 62, David Powell, 50, Phillip Hill, 44, and Garry Jenkins, 39, died in the Gleision ...

For the mine, where weekly output had, on occasion, been double that of every other Lancashire pit closed for ever. The last shift brought to an end more than 100 years of drift mining ...