Amanda McKay's father, Ted McKay, represented miners who continued ... Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, and was the leader of Plaid Cymru for five years. "The strike placed within me ...

The daughter of a mining union official has spoken for the first time about how her family faced kidnap threats during the 1984 miners' strike ... Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, and ...

The Miners' Strike had started some weeks earlier ... which catered specifically to audiences in North East England, and "it went out without arousing any opposition as far as I'm aware".

In the mid-nineteenth century, Ireland suffered from an event known as the Great Hunger or the Potato Famine. Ireland at the ...

NORTH Ayrshire Family History ... at the history of the rows of miners' cottages in Dalry and the people who lived there. The old Carsehead and Peesweep rows - the 'Dalry Raws' as they were known - ...

Image: Roger Tiley / Alamy Indeed, the year-long strike between 6 March 1984 and 3 March 1985, during which more than 140,000 miners came out against pit closures, was the most powerful defence of the ...

East Ayrshire Council has unveiled its programme of road improvements and maintenance for the coming year. Officials say that the investment aims to enhance infrastructure and improve travel ...

About three-quarters of the country's 187,000 miners went on strike, but in Nottinghamshire, only around a quarter joined the action out of 30,000 people. The Notts Women Against Pit Closures ...

It has always been our aspiration since The Corner opened to create a mural on the large gable end to the east. The Ayrshire Live app is available to download now. Get all the local news in your ...