Alex Jenkins was just 13 years old and in school - just like any other day - when he received a confusing text.
"I was in Welsh class in school and I had a text asking what mine Dad worked in. I then saw my brother who asked if I knew of anything going on up the mine, but I didn’t know if Dad was there. Shortly after that I was taken out of school and told that he was in fact in the mine, and that he was one of those trapped."
More than 11 years have now passed since a Welsh community was thrust into mourning after four men left their homes for a day’s work never to return to their families. On the morning of September 15, 2011, miners were underground at the Gleision Colliery in the community of Cilybebyll on the outskirts of Pontardawe.
