It's hard to believe that 1,300 people used to work where I'm now standing, almost alone, on a freezing hillside on the fringes of a mountain range. It's almost the exact point where the densely ...

This is Big Pit, the national coal museum in Blaenavon that is keeping alive the history of the industry on which modern Wales and much of the UK is built. And it's doing such a good job of it that it ...

This is Big Pit, the national coal museum in Blaenavon that is keeping alive the history of the industry on which modern ...

Open-cast mining, where coal is dug out of the ground through a giant, open pit, destroys habitats. South Africa has many of the largest open pit mines in the world. When these were established, a ...

Big Pit in Wales has been named the best free attraction in the UK and it's easy to see why - it's an incredible, moving and important place that tells the story of modern Britain and the people who w ...