A mural commemorating "the last pit of the Rhondda" has appeared in a historic mining village. The striking image has been painted on the side of a building on Station Road in Maerdy, Rhondda Cynon ...

MAERDY locals have thrown their weight behind an appeal which has been launched to commemorate the former coal mining industry in the Rhondda. MAERDY locals have thrown their weight behind an appeal ...

A group of naturalists surveying the Maerdy colliery site in the Rhondda Valley has unearthed a new species of arthropod. The brown-hued millipede has been nicknamed the 'Maerdy Monster' and is ...

A species of millipede that is "new to science" has been discovered by experts at a historical coal mine. Naturalists in South Wales came across the bug while surveying a former colliery site in ...

The stunning mural was unveiled last week near the "last pit of the Rhondda" A mural commemorating "the last pit of the Rhondda" has appeared in a historic mining village. The striking image has been ...