Calls for 'as much as we can spend' on coal tip safety

THE Welsh Government has asked for “as much as we can spend” to keep communities safe from at-risk coal tips, Eluned Morgan has said.

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On a visit to the Tylorstown Tip in Rhondda Cynon Taf, the First Minister insisted the country was getting the funding it needed from the UK Government following a number of incidents across the Valleys.

Tylorstown Tip experienced a landslip in February 2020, when the hillside was hit by three storms in quick succession. Some 60,000 tonnes of material fell into the Rhondda Fach River below. And in November last year, residents in Cwmtillery in Blaenau Gwent were forced from their homes when a landslip occurred, following significant storms and flooding.