Coffee alone won't transform a former pit town – but it can inspire people | Adrian Chiles

A roastery in a coalshed is bringing punters from far and wide to Ammanford in Wales. Such ambition must surely spur on othersI get to travel around the UK a lot, forever celebrating commercial life outside the big cities. On Monday morning, I found encouragement in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire. It was raining hard on this small former pit town. The last of the collieries closed in 2003 and it has been looking for another purpose ever since. Over the road from Lidl and the police station is a plac