East London's Hackney Colliery Band continue to reinvent the brass band sound for the 21st century with Sharpener. Comprised of trumpets, trombones, saxophones, sousaphone, marching percussion and ...

On Remembrance Sunday – exactly 100 years after the guns stopped on the Western Front – the nation will fall silent to honour 886,000 British heroes who died during World War 1. But one group will use ...

In May 1993, a landmark of the County Durham coast closed for good. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Sunderland Echo, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium ...

Dinnington Colliery Band, a traditional colliery band from Yorkshire, today releases an album on Decca Records, called A Band for Britain. This is the second CD featuring colliery bands to be released ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A county colliery band won the National Brass Band Championships at London’s Royal Albert Hall - but it was 'probably the quietest ...

Some of the UK's best-known colliery bands have united to sign a deal for a new album to mark the 25th anniversary of the end of the miners' strike. 22 January 2010 • 7:30am The Grimethorpe Colliery ...

The stars of hit British movie Brassed Off, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, will come to Wolverhampton on Sunday when they headline the city's Grand Theatre. Sign up for the top news stories every day ...

When it opened its doors in 1904, St Luke the Evangelist in Grimethorpe declared itself as "a church built by miners for the miners". An appearance by the South Yorkshire village's renowned colliery ...

Grimethorpe Colliery Band, which was formed almost 100 years ago by workers from a Yorkshire coal mine, is surviving on income from playing concerts after losing sponsorship money. Nigel Dixon, the ...