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Folk in the Little Wenlock area are a bit het up at the moment about proposals for opencast coal mining at nearby New Works. There is quite a history of opencast mining in the area, as this picture ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Merthyr Tydfil's Ffos-y-Fran mine was responsible for 86% of the UK's total coal output before it closed [BBC] The Welsh ...

Opencast mine developers have repeatedly “cut and run”, breaking promises on restoration and costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds, a Senedd committee warned. Llŷr Gruffydd, climate change ...

The UK's last opencast coalmine will close later as fears mount over whether the massive site will be restored. Documents seen by BBC News show concerns at the Welsh government and UK Coal Authority ...

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The Welsh government has taken control of deciding how to restore the UK's largest opencast mine at Ffos-y-Fran, following backlash over a reduced £15m plan by Merthyr South Wales Ltd. The proposal ...