Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Miners working at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, south Wales, were in the middle of their morning shifts 2000ft below the ...

Crickhowell and Christ College, Brecon, return game marks 100 years since mining tragedy memorial match It was an otherwise unremarkable rugby match and scoreline – and yet it was played out against ...

A long-buried sliver of British history saw hundreds of men killed in what was described as the country's "greatest disaster ever known" - something that devastated an entire community. Here, ...

A MEMORIAL service will take place later this month to mark the 99th anniversary of the Universal Colliery disaster in Senghenydd. A MEMORIAL service will take place later this month to mark the 99th ...

Hundreds of people have attended a special memorial event to mark 100 years since the Senghenydd mining disaster. The Senghenydd colliery disaster, when 439 miners were killed by a gas explosion, is ...

Miners working at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, south Wales, were in the middle of their morning shifts 2000ft below the ground when a massive explosion ripped through the deep pit at 8.10am.