Heaps of danger on Welsh hillsides

Work to stabilise the Tylorstown tip following a landslide continues by the town of Tylorstown on Dec 6, 2023 in the Rhondda Valley, south Wales. — AFP

IT was nearly four years ago but the memory of the landslip that sent 60,000 tonnes of old mining debris sliding down a Welsh hillside still haunts former miner Jeff Coombes.

First the river he was walking along with his dog in the heart of the Rhondda Valley in south Wales turned brown. Then the water slowed down.