Gloucestershire County Council has stood up to say it would protect the ancient rights of the Freeminers of the Forest of Dean to mine and burn coal. The rights of Freeminers were granted by King ...

A council has pledged to protect the ancient rights of freeminers to burn and mine coal despite concerns over climate change. The Forest of Dean tradition was first established in Gloucestershire in ...

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".

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 ...

Gloucestershire County Council has stood up to say it would protect the ancient rights of the Freeminers of the Forest of Dean to mine and burn coal. The rights of Freeminers were granted by King ...