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Local people do not want to live next to yet another opencast site that could be "within 15 and 17 metres of houses" (The Journal, August 9).

Wales' first climate camp was held last year near Ffos-y-fran, in Merthyr, the largest opencast coal mine in the UK.

Opencast fight back in High Court: A dispute over plans to extract 10 million tonnes of coal from a Valleys site was going back to the High Court today.

It comes as Wansbeck Council's deputy leader Coun David Nicholson warned the end was in sight for opencast in Northumberland.

It believes that if the opencast were to go ahead, it could open the floodgates to future developments across the Tyne/Derwent watershed and beyond into the wider Derwent Valley.

Officers were first called to the Banks opencast sitenear Dipton at around 8.20pm on Saturday night.

It is understood the protesters were trying to stop Tarmac and machinery being delivered to the Bradley Opencast site, near Consett.

They peldged to remain all day to stop tarmac and machinery being delivered to the Bradley Opencast site, near Consett.

Opencast mining is a filthy business that affects the health of people, pollutes the environment and devastates landscapes.

Called 'Solidarity Sunday', the protest will come just days before Wales goes to the polls for the Assembly elections, with participants calling for a ban on opencast coal mining across Wales and the UK.

The Nungu Colliery coal reserves are located beneath the surface on the remaining extent of Portion 23 and access to the underground coal reserves is also located on Portion 23 in the high wall of the previously mined out Nungu West Opencast pit.

Against this background, the current study was undertaken to compare prevalent morbid conditions amongst underground and opencast coalminers.

Green activists have taken on a rich Tory peer set to make more millions from opencast mining on his Scots estate.

RESIDENTS in North Warwickshire are being supported by their local MP in the fight to keep opencast mining away from their doorstep.