The project is part of a new public art programme entitled Deep Time ... Cumbrian coast by proposing an artwork that transforms a slag heap at Millom into a precise sculptural form.

Rather, the vision on offer is of Britain as an apocalyptic inner-city slag heap, blighted by burned-out buildings and upturned cars: a defunct kingdom riven, almost, by civil war.

Slag from the steel industry could help save some of Wales' most rare plants, according to an ecologist. The material, regarded as waste, has been described as a potential "game-changer" when it ...

FOUR leading international artists have revealed their proposals for a major landmark artwork on the Lake District Coast. The project is part of a new public art programme entitled Deep Time ...

A slag heap is a hill or area of refuse from a mine or industrial site. Mr Stewart has been recording plants for 30 years and gradually realised that wherever slag was present, wild flowers did well.