“Along with dealing with the heat, the topography, the fuels and then you throw the mineshafts on top of it,” said Billy Morris, acting fire operations chief for Hillside Fire ...
A plan to transform abandoned mineshafts under Oldham town’s surface into a source of heating is set to move ahead after the council secured funding from the government this week. A £10.2m ...
Conservationists found eight species of bat using the mineshafts and surrounding moorland near Barnsley as an "autumn swarming" location. Following a year-long study, the 28-hecatare site ...
According to the developer, there are nine mineshafts across the nine-hectare site, and the land is contaminated with chemicals such as arsenic and mercury. The land, behind the Asda supermarket ...