An environmental group is asking the Nova Scotia government to quash the approval of a small quarry in a Lunenburg County watershed it hopes will be designated a wilderness area. George Buranyi ...

A council has lodged objections to controversial proposals to develop a sand and gravel quarry next to houses in the village of Preesall. The plans for Preesall, by developer Baxters, will be ...

Mr Regan issued Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board with a prevention of future deaths report during an inquest for a 16-year-old boy who died after waiting nine hours for an ambulance.

Lower down in the cwm, passageways still survive and are occasionally visited by those who know where to look and don’t mind getting their feet wet. Also still standing, above the quarry ...

Higher up in Cwm Llan, the relics are hard to miss, from waste heaps and mills to tramways and fenced-off barracks. This was the centrepiece of mining operations at Hafod y Llan (South Snowdon) slate ...

A track to the South Snowdon slate quarry through Cwm Llan already existed, so to enable visitors to walk all the way up the summit, Watkin created a path. The route, stretching from the quarry to ...