A large dismantled section of an oil refinery has been taken away by road ready to be shipped and rebuilt in Pakistan. Policing units escorted it on the five-hour journey from the former Murco site in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, to Gelliswick Bay on Tuesday. About 600 people once worked there but it closed in November 2014. It is now a storage facility, with about 100 people carrying out...
The UK’s haven for alternative thinking
Amid the mist-cloaked, forested slopes of the Dyfi Valley, outside the Welsh market town of Machynlleth, is a remarkable sight: a seemingly ramshackle collection of log cabins, old wind turbines, thatched huts, steel tubes and funicular railways, rising from the banks of a former slate quarry. It looks at once incongruous and perfectly at home; both organic and man-made, as if it had grown there...