The stunning mural was unveiled last week near the "last pit of the Rhondda" A mural commemorating "the last pit of the Rhondda" has appeared in a historic mining village. The striking image has been ...

COUNCILLOR Robert Bevan worked at the Mardy Colliery during the strike – and remembers vividly how difficult those times were. COUNCILLOR Robert Bevan worked at the Mardy Colliery during the strike – ...

ARE you in the picture? Leader reader Michael Hughes from Tonypandy has sent us this picture of the maintenance night shift workers at Mardy Colliery before it closed in December 1990. He said: “My ...

Forty years on from the miners' strikes, a mining community in the south Wales valleys gathered to re-enact its original march. Ex-miners from Maerdy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, brought original colliery ...

A mural commemorating "the last pit of the Rhondda" has appeared in a historic mining village. The striking image has been painted on the side of a building on Station Road in Maerdy, Rhondda Cynon ...