Opencast plan may lose support, Anon. Western Mail 4 Feb 2000 p 9. See
below:
Mining scheme rejected, Anon. Western Mail 5 Feb 2000 p 5. Opencast
mining at Rhydycar has been turned down by Merthyr Tydfil council.
Couple take plunge 300 feet underground, Anon. Western Mail 7 Feb 2000
p 9 photo. Christine Galledge and Mark Lee were married in the Big Pit
Mining Museum in Blaenavon.
Rivers of cyanide runs through Europe by Nick Thorpe. The Guardian
February 11, 2000 p 17. An Australian-owned gold mine in western
Rumania has disgorged a millions gallons of cyanide contaminated water
into the rivers of central Europe killing fish and threatening drinking
water supplies.
Books by Meic Stephens. Western Mail Magazine section 12 February, 2000
p14. This weeks column is devoted to Bert Lewis Coombes. See below:
Vivid tales from the coalface by Mario Basini. Western Mail Magazine
section 12 February, 2000 pp 14 - 15, 3 photos. A review of two books:
B L Combes by Bill Jones and Chris Williams. University of Wales Press
£5.99 and With Dust Still in his Throat a B L Coombes Anthology.
University of Wales Press £9.99 A coal miner from Resolven in the Vale
of Neath, he was also a long life writer who produced short stories,
novels, plays, autobiographies and newspaper articles. He wrote a
weekly column for his local newspaper the Neath Guardian for decades.
Contributed by Tony Oldham, Retired Mining Bookseller.
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