I have a spare Petzl stop; barely used. asking £50 + post (say £3.50) PM if interested. MARK

Last Thursday Mark H and myself floor-boarded the last section, and thereby completed our (with Col H) dig through the collapses on Rampgill Cross Vein. The digs represented 65ft of horizontal progress over two separate blockages and consumed around 1000 sandbags, 700ft of treated 5x2 timber...

In recent weeks our group has noticed that one of the wooden uprights in the 1st Norpex dig on Rampgill Vein was looking increasingly bowed and rotten. Last night we found that the upright was pretty much destroyed, with only a few strands of rotten timber holding back the badly decayed tin...

One for the Bucket List https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/viral/the-world-s-only-working-ladder-of-death/vi-AA17UoYG?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=e042eda0e40f4dd492b75f1747d21503&ei=20 MARK

Nearly sprayed the screen with coffee....!! https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/water-in-cumbrian-harbour-turns-orange-as-campaigners-fear-coal-mine-pollution-to-blame/ar-AA17u3Ye?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=5e6c0d445bee46fcb7ceafce8cc5770f MARK

FYI, latest: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/mining-firm-cornish-metals-makes-discovery-while-drilling-at-south-crofty-in-cornwall/ar-AA16d717 MARK

Just a brief account of works done lately on Gudhamgill Burn Cross Vein in Brownley Hill Mine. GBXV runs N/S from an arched junction at head of Broomsberry Horse Level beyond Engine Shaft. Here, a right turn takes you onto GBXV heading south towards Gudhamgill Moss Vein and ultimately to the...

BBC are showing a documentary about this tragic event at 8pm tonight 15/9/21 on BBC1 Wales Also available on I-Player for rest of UK. MARK

Urbex/stoner crossover plumbs new depths of muppetry  :furious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIeeU4oZVMI maybe I'm being too harsh - why waste hard-scrounged benefits on protecting what isn't there? MARK