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Sep 26, 2024 | 
aol.com | Bethan Lewis |Tony Brown
September 26, 2024 at 2:49 PMOnly days after arriving at university for the first time, Jordan Andrews had an interview for a part-time job, knowing that he would have to work in order to enjoy the social side of student life. The 18-year-old from Carmarthenshire worked out that his maintenance loan would not cover more than the bare minimum while studying at the University of Sussex.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
aol.com | Jordan Davies |Tony Brown
September 21, 2024 at 3:52 PMThis donated vehicle was destroyed in 2022 [KVPU, the Independent Union of Ukrainian Miners]Six Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in an attack on a vehicle donated by Welsh miners just months ago. The men died when their SUV was shelled by Russian artillery in August, according to a Ukrainian trade union. The car was driven to Ukraine by Welsh miners as part of an aid convoy in February and some of the men who died were Ukrainian miners.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
aol.com | Jordan Davies |Tony Brown
September 7, 2024 at 10:30 AMNicky Wire has played Blackwood Miner's Institute both with his band and with a snooker cue in his youth [BBC]Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire has called for a "magical" venue which played host to the band to be saved. Blackwood Miners' Institute in the band's hometown has also hosted acts including Stereophonics, Black Sabbath and Coldplay.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
aol.com | Jordan Davies |Tony Brown
August 30, 2024 at 5:40 PMNicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers says the rage he felt growing up during the miners' strike embedded a "working class rage" in his DNA [Getty Images]"I won the Brit Awards and I was living in a miner's house."Manic Street Preachers songwriter Nicky Wire has recalled how the 1984 miners’ strike helped shape the band's global hits. His brother, Patrick Jones, went on to forge a successful career as a poet and playwright.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Tony Brown |Meagan Fitzgerald
June 1, 2024, 10:00 AM UTCBy and SAINT-ELLIER-LES-BOIS, France — It’s almost 80-years on, but Marie Bastien said the memory of the American fighter plane being shot down near her village in northern France remains as vivid as ever.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jordan Davies |Tony Brown
It has been 40 years to the day since miners across the UK embarked on a year-long dispute in an attempt to keep their industry going. No one knew quite how challenging that year would be. But for many women, the experience transformed their lives. In the spring of 1984, Sian James was quite happy – married to a miner and the mother of two children. Her husband worked at Abernant Colliery, near Pontardawe in the Swansea Valley, and her father, father-in-law and brother all worked underground too.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jordan Davies |Tony Brown |Peter Shuttleworth
One is home to world-famous fashion retailer, the other feels forgotten - this is the differing tale of two coal communities now the mines have gone. More than 4,500 people work at Asos's distribution centre in Grimethorpe - more than that who live in the former south Wales mining village of Maerdy. How well they've responded to losing their mine, the old village heartbeat, depends on your barometer of success. Is getting bigger better, or is it all about a tight-knit community spirit?
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
aol.com | Tony Brown |Jordan Davies
A group of miners from south Wales loaded cars up with medical supplies and drove from Pontypridd to KievWhen Ukrainian miner Vasyl Yavorsky donated his own wages to striking Welsh miners in 1984, he never thought that help would one day be returned. However, a group of Welsh miners have now loaded up on medicine and supplies and driven from south Wales to Kyiv to repay the old favour.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
aol.com | Richard Engel |Charlotte Gardiner |Yuliya Talmazan |Kelly O'Donnell |Marc Smith |Tony Brown
KOSTIANTYNIVKA, Ukraine — Sitting in the ruins of a bombed-out school close to the front lines in eastern Ukraine, Halyna Liutikova fills the overcast air with an infectious laugh. “We are really tired,” she said, weighed down not just by the bulletproof vest beneath her camouflaged gear but by the months of endless fighting to defend her country. “Because two years, it’s a lot.”She’s not alone, in more ways than one.
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Feb 17, 2024 | 
bristolpost.co.uk | Tony Brown
One man who took a trip to Paignton in Devon says he left feeling like he'd been 'mugged' over the cost of parking. The local paid a visit to the seaside resort and couldn't believe the £4.70 fee for three hours parking along the empty seafront. Writing in a letter to our sister print title the Herald Express, he said the 'absurd charge' is entirely counter-productive and meant he spent £25 less locally as a result.
