Welsh mine deaths: Church services for Gleision miners (The Prince of Wales to be royal patron)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: BBC

Church services across south Wales have paid tribute to the four miners killed in a Swansea Valley colliery.

Phillip Hill, 45, Garry Jenkins, 39, David Powell, 50, and Charles Breslin, 62, all died in flooded Gleision Colliery near Pontardawe.

Archbishop of Wales Barry Morgan said the tragedy had moved an entire nation and the world.

The Prince of Wales has agreed to be royal patron of the Swansea Valley Miners Appeal Fund.



Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14962828

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A tribute to the miners in Pontardawe town centre with a helmet balanced on a spade



The message and flowers left by miner Phillip Hill's daughter Kyla near Gleision Colliery

[KoKo]

1. Kick...they should be remembered...like all who do the "dirty work" for the rest of us. K&R!

[pennylane100]

2. Yes Charles is the perfect spokesperson.

Let us have a moronic representative of the country's most expensive welfare family head up the appeal fund.

What better choice could there be than a chronic under performer whose greatest achievement is how well he has been able to live off the public trough. I think the miners' deserve better.

[JNelson6563]

5. Perhaps he may actually do a bit of good for the little people

instead of vice versa (for a change). Hopefully he and Camilla will make it fashionable to give generously to the fund. Sickening as it is there are fashions in philanthropy.

Julie--hoping for the best

[midnight]

3. K&R

[pinboy3niner]

4. K&R

R.I.P.

:patriot: