Our thoughts and prayers are with their loved-ones ...

Photographer Andrew Mason has documented some of them over recent years at the Stoke-on-Trent pit, which closed in the 1970s ...

Police are appealing for witnesses ...

Many dog breeds are currently banned in the UK, meaning owning, selling, breeding, abandoning or even giving away these ...

RIP Lily ...

Pits are a key barometer, a vital/morbid economic index we track closely at the DJC. Those voids below grade are a hallmark of development progress stalled … the lack of wherewithal to clamber back ...