Glamorgan Power Company has told local Torfaen council that it will be withdrawing its application for an opencast coal mine at Varteg Hill in Wales.

The company had submitted an amended proposal in ­February – some 12 years after the initial planning ­application was submitted. A Torfaen council spokesman said: “The agent has decided that they are withdrawing their application for a coal recovery scheme at Varteg Hill, and that no further action will be taken regarding this submission.”