He lived in Merthyr Tydfil and said he had been on his way in when he passed the village of Aberfan - but something wrong, with lots of fire engines and ambulances running around. At that ...

Surveying the sombre gravestones of the 116 child victims of the Aberfan disaster, Bernard and Andrew Thomas pick out the names of their school friends. There is tragic Hywell Evans, who died aged ...

On this day in 1966, the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip killed 144 people, 116 of whom were school children, in Aberfan, Glamorgan, Wales. The tip had been created on a mountain ...

Almost one in three survivors of the Aberfan mining disaster were still suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder 33 years on, a new study has said. On October 21 1966 a coal slagheap ...

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The devastating Aberfan disaster in 1966 claimed the lives of 116 children and 28 adults A manhunt was launched while a school and childcare centre were placed into lockdown in a Welsh mining village.

The Aberfan disaster remains one of the most devastating mining accidents in Welsh history. How truthful was the Netflix series’ account of the incident? This story contains spoilers for episode ...

October 21st, 1966 changed Aberfan forever. Collins was aged seven ... The Welsh government has published maps online of the 350 waste coal tips that pose the biggest risk. There have been ...

New maps showing old coal tips across south Wales ... It's got to be done - we don't want another Aberfan do we?" The tragedy in the village of Aberfan saw a total of 116 children and 28 adults ...

The Aberfan disaster shook the world - 116 children and 28 adults died on 21 October 1966 when a coal tip engulfed a junior school and surrounding homes. How could this happen? Show more The ...

A man has been arrested after a heavily pregnant woman was stabbed in Aberfan, South Wales. A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a woman was stabbed in Aberfan ...