Coal mines were dangerous for all workers ... Before electricity, men often worked standing in water, swinging their sharp pick axes and shoveling coal in the flickering light of their gas ...

Tutty starting working in the Glace Bay coal mines when he was 14 years old ... the horses until they were old enough to swing a pick axe and handle blasting powder. After a few years, Tutty ...

Anglo American last night admitted that jobs will go at its Yorkshire potash mine. The mining giant conceded ... staff who work on-site could face the axe. That would amount to 1,120 jobs.