The miners trapped underground in the copper and gold mine in Chile say they have had "just about enough" of the glare of publicity which has surrounded their entombment for the last three weeks, and have called for the media to focus their attenti...
Adrian Chiles is gutted about the 33 miners who are stuck inside him. "I just don't have the words to describe what it feels like to have men, good men - good, honest working men - stuck inside you." Equally the miners have said that being stuck in t...
David Cameron has announced a new strand to his emerging foreign policy. In an attempt to foster relations with Latin America - he has sent his deputy, Nick Clegg, to be used by the trapped Chilean miners to check for areas which might be contaminate...
Chilean miners are set to become D list celebrities following news that the producers of Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here are planning to take over the rescue and turn it in to a reality TV contest. "Why there's lurds of opperto...
In what must surely be a humiliating blow, slapheaded communist, Arthur Scargill, has been sacked by his own union - the National Union of Mineworkers. Thanks to his failed leadership during the 80's miners strikes, fatcat hands-in-the-till Scargi...
The Chilean miners trapped after a mine collapsed on them have today demanded overtime at double the normal rate of pay. Trapped miner and Union leader Mr Juan Diagio said "We normally work nine to five thirty Monday to Friday with an hour off for...
33 Chilean miners supposedly trapped in a mine for 19 days have revealed that they could have escaped days ago but wanted to stay put until Christmas is over. Luis Urzúa told reporters, over a crackling line, "I am sick to death of Christmas and h...
The thirty-three miners trapped underground in a mine in Chile since 5 August, have told rescuers to call off their emergency rescue attempt, and to leave them be, as they have decided to remain where they are, and to set up their own subterranean co...
Many years ago a friend of mine called Joe worked in the coal mines. He would go to work early in the morning, go down the mine to the coal face and do his eight hour stint, then come back to the surface to get ready to come home. He followed this daily routine faithfully for years on end, down the mine in the morning and up at the end of his shift. Down then up, down then up. One day whil...
Following the recent coal mine explosion that killed 29 miners, Westboro Baptist Church members staged a protest spouting hate in the name of God, carrying banners that say, "Thank God for Dead Miners," "You Will Eat Your Babies," God Hates Your Tear...
An eerie yet pregnant silence permeates the scrub region locating the remote Chiadzwa diamond fields, apart from occasional bouts of gunfire, an odd anti-personnel mine explosion and the ensuing screams. Mr. Muti Fruiti was one of the first 'get r...
The US Congress that hasn't lifted a finger to halt the cataclysm of national economic disasters has decided to investigate a mine collapse in Huntington, Utah.
Policemen involved in a dispute over pay with Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, received a shot in the arm today from an unlikely source, as the National Union of Mineworkers announced that they were thro...
Thousands of conscripts who were stuffed down coalmines during World War II will receive a 'special honour' for their endeavours, outgoing Prime Minister Tony Bliar has said.
Perthshire- It was just after 3.00pm yesterday afternoon, in the small Scottish mining town of Glenalkie, that news first started to filter out of the local porridge works that there had been a massive cave in 2500ft beneath the the main pit head of...
The earth certainly moved for lucky Norman Gingham last Saturday night. "What an experience," he told us from his home yesterday. "It's the first time anything remotely like this has happened to me, I can tell you. What a bloody night that was!"...
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