Catch up - Wales This Week: The Last Welsh Miners?
As Wales' relationship with coal draws to an end, Wales This Week follows the last Welsh deep pit coal miners as they clock off for the final time.
As Wales' relationship with coal draws to an end, Wales This Week follows the last Welsh deep pit coal miners as they clock off for the final time.
It’s one of the greatest stories ever told. In Wales, the rise and fall of the coal industry goes hand in hand with the growth and the decline of many of our communities.
But that industry which once employed over a quarter of a million people in Wales has now dwindled to such a point that only seven Welsh deep pit miners remain.
After decades of closures and thousands of redundancy notices, many of our mine workers were forced into an almost nomadic lifestyle, travelling the length and breadth of the UK to find work.
It is this which brought a group of Welsh deep pit mine workers to the Kellingley Colliery, in North Yorkshire
Wales This Week: The Last Welsh Miners is available to watch online here
Rain clipping the far north through the evening but elsewhere staying dry with some sunny spells.
Public Health Wales figures show 25 more cases of the virus have also been confirmed.
Photos taken on Saturday morning show Roald Dahl Plass strewn with empty beer bottles and discarded canisters of laughing gas.