🚨 The full £600m is essential to protect #Wales' #CoalTips!

We cannot wait any longer - our communities deserve safety.

We must stop tragedies like #Aberfan from happening again 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I’ve only recently become aware of her work. Through Lobel I now discover she had a residency in the former coal mining region of Borinage where Van Gogh spent time as an evangelist (the art thing came later). Will have to check her book on it, ‘And from the Coaltips a Tree will Rise”.

👀 "When it was put to her that it was far short of the up to £600m previously estimated to be needed for coaltips, Reeves said: "No, the £118m is what the Welsh government asked for from the UK government and we've delivered that in full."
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Sun Rising over the Coal Tips
8”x6” oil on board

The sun rising on a snowy morning with the coal tips in my home village.

#sunrise #sunriseoftheday #art #welshart #welshartist #coaltips #wales

Coal tips safety: Residents say lessons 'not learned' from Aberfan disaster 🇬🇧 #walescoaltips #aberfandisaster #coaltips #coalmining news.sky.com/story/coal-t...