These photos taken from the Wrekin’s summit show the extent of progress being made at the opencast mine in Little Wenlock.

Work has begun on the second phase of mining at a Shropshire beauty spot after UK Coal bosses successfully evicted protesters from their campaign HQ campsite.

Bailiffs swooped on protesters fighting mining at a Shropshire beauty spot because they knew the campaigners would be partying at the V Festival.

Bosses at UK Coal who are mining 900,000 tonnes of coal from a Shropshire beauty spot today won their court battle to evict protesters from the site.

Protesters fighting plans to mine 900,000 tonnes of coal in Shropshire will appear in court tomorrow in a bid to fight a planned eviction.

Police were called to UK Coal’s mine in Telford today after protesters ran onto the site and chained themselves to diggers.

Protesters battling against developers mining coal at a Shropshire beauty spot today warned they would be prepared to encase themselves in concrete to stop bulldozers flattening their makeshift camp.

Diggers for UK Coal have come within feet of the protesters’ campsite as they continue to mine more than 900,000 tonnes of coal from a Shropshire beauty spot.

Mining company UK Coal has granted a reprieve to a grieving Shropshire grandmother ordered to quit her home next to a giant opencast site in Telford this summer.

UK Coal is to press ahead with plans to mine thousands of tonnes of coal in Shropshire despite recording massive losses for the second consecutive year.

A SHROPSHIRE GRANDMOTHER has been given three months to leave her home by developers UK Coal – despite looking after her three grandchildren as her daughter-in-law battles a brain tumour.

Campaigners protesting against the mining of 900,000 tonnes of coal at a Shropshire beauty spot have started building a second camp to block diggers and workers coming in.

Fancy buying a house in Toxic Fallout Terrace, Lung Disease Lane or Coal Dust Close? They are all roads that have been “renamed” by protesters opposed to the mining of 900,000 tonnes of coal in New Works, Little Wenlock, Telford.

Protesters campaigning against opencast mining at a beauty spot blocked the site entrance branding it “a danger to human lives”.

The first coal has been mined from the foot of the Wrekin, it was confirmed today.

Protesters fighting plans to mine coal at a Shropshire beauty spot will start handing out specially-made postcards to tourists in a bid to boost their campaign.

Telford pensioner Eva Ludlum could lose much of the view from her bungalow in New Works when open cast mining operations start in earnest over the next few months.

Protesters who set up camp in the shadow of The Wrekin more than six months ago to fight plans to mine 900,000 tonnes of coal today said they were “here to stay” despite opposition.

ANTI-COAL protesters who have been living in a ramshackle camp at a mining site near Telford for more than six months were today told by residents to “go home”.

James Shaw meets the protesters who have spent months camped out in an effort to stop opencast mining near The Wrekin.

Today’s video on the start of opencast mining work at New Works in Telford takes a look at the thoughts of the Huntington Lane Surface Mining Scheme – Community Liaison Committee.

Heavy plant machinery has moved into the site of open-cast mining at New Works in Telford. This week, we will be taking a look at how local people feel about the start of work at the site.

WORK TO pave the way for the mining of 900,000 tonnes of coal in the shadow of The Wrekin has “devastated” the beauty spot in just a matter of days, it was claimed today.

Officials have dismantled treehouses on the site of a planned opencast coalmine near Telford and stopped protesters from rebuilding them, it was revealed today.

Workmen today moved on to the site of an open-cast mine in the shadow of The Wrekin to start making preparations to excavate the area.

Controversial plans to mine 900,000 tonnes of coal in the shadow of The Wrekin came under the national spotlight on the BBC radio show Any Questions, writes Simon Hardy

A HONEYCOMB OF tunnels dug under The Wrekin by anti-coal protesters could cave in and seriously injure walkers, it was claimed today.

Protestors against plans to mine coal from the foot of the Wrekin are expected to intensify their campaign as the countdown to work by UK Coal begins.

Nearly a dozen campaigners fighting a decision to mine 900,000 tonnes of coal near the Wrekin have sailed down the River Severn with a protest banner.

A farmer today hit back at campaigners protesting against plans to mine coal in the shadow of the Wrekin, saying they are camped illegally, creating a rubbish tip and a health hazard.