About 200ft (60m) of steel was used to create Ian Walton's miner statue, which took two months to build An artist has appealed for help to restore a damaged steel sculpture on a Wrexham colliery ...

Wrexham MP Andrew Ranger is continuing his campaign for fairer pensions for all British Coal employees.

THE Miners Rescue Station on Maesgwyn Road in Wrexham, was purpose built to save lives. More than 100 years later, it has a different purpose but for some it is still considered a life-saver. As ...

The place? Wrexham’s Miners Rescue Station, which sits close to the Racecourse Ground and now houses a memorial wall featuring the names, job titles and ages of all those who perished.

A TRIBUTE to a town’s mining heritage has been made more personal. The Ferryhill in Bloom Committee raised funds to install a statue of a miner next to the coal tub on Station Bank, in Ferryhill ...

COUNCIL chiefs are considering legal action over the demolition of a listed former miners rescue centre.

The celebration included the unveiling of a statue that holds a lot of sentimental meaning for the Miners and the Ocean Springs community.

AN ICONIC statue has been vandalised less than two weeks after being restored to its home at the heart of a South Wales town.

Accounts showed Mr Wingett had invested £410,000 of the charity’s earnings across seven years in the project to build the dragon sculpture near the A5 in Chirk, Wrexham.

The 12ft (3.6m) figure of a miner was created by Ian Walton at the former Bersham Colliery, near Rhostyllen, which closed 30 years ago. It has been hit by bad weather and suspected vandalism ...

An artist appeals for help to restore a damaged steel sculpture on a colliery waste heap.