The in-depth story of the 1966 Aberfan Mine Disaster. Early on October 21, 1966, 140,000 cubic yards of coal waste from the nearby mine slid from the hill above the Aberfan and buried all the ...

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 ...

In fact, her reaction to the disaster in Aberfan was said to be one of the biggest regrets of her reign. A total of 116 children and 28 adults were killed when a colliery spoil tip collapsed ...

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 ...

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 ...

A car wash worker accused of attempting to murder a pregnant woman in Aberfan had previously stalked her and “filmed her for TikTok videos”, a court heard. Daniel Mihai Popescu, who is also ...

More than half a century has passed since this once unremarkable timepiece came to awful prominence, as time stood still for a generation of children lost to the Aberfan disaster of 1966.

Hundreds of people will gather to remember the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. A total of 116 children and 28 adults lost their lives on October 21, 1966, after a huge coal waste tip ...

Builder Steve Collins (65) loved his local pub, the Angel Inn, so much that he bought it in 2021 when it was threatened with closure. The pub had always been at the centre of community life in the ...

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 ...

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.