Their unique privileges are understood to have later been granted to the Freeminers were a reward for their part in ...

Gloucestershire County Council put forth an amendment to allow the historic practice to continue, saying its contribution to global warming was "miniscule". During the nationalisation of the coal ...

The Forest of Dean is to be submitted for consideration as a Unesco "biosphere reserve".If approved, the forest would join ...

25,000 Welsh workers left mining for the armed forces and other jobs between 1938 and 1941. The coal industry moved ... such as Kent and the Forest of Dean where labour shortages were more acute.

Getty Images The work is being carried out in the Cannop catchment of the Forest of Dean, where there are remnants of mine buildings The council's Joe Baker said that hydrological modelling was ...

Forest of Dean District Council voted in favour of ... such as freemining – which grants certain locals the right to mine coal, iron and stone on personal plots known as "gales".