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 ...

This map shows the locations of listed buildings and sites. It doesn't show the full extent of the structures protected by each listing. For more about the extent of a listing, please refer to the ...

Ahead of kick-off, we will remember the 116 children and 28 adults who sadly passed away in the Aberfan disaster on October 21 ... or by taking the route identified on the map below in green. The Mel ...

Aberfan Cemetery is a cemetery near the village of Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of five cemeteries in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, and is particularly well known for the graves of 144 victims ...

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 ...

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 ...

This evening and tonight will see clear spells and just some variable cloud lingering, although towards dawn some thicker areas of cloud will develop in spots, with areas of mist and fog. Friday ...

A survivor of the Aberfan disaster has spoken publicly for the first time, 50 years after the coal tip collapsed on to his school in South Wales. Gerald Kirwaun was eight years old when he was ...

In 1966, an avalanche of coal slag cascaded down a Welsh mountainside, burying a school in the town of Aberfan and killing 148 people, mostly young students. In 1983, Grenada's newly installed ...

This includes Mr Berry’s coverage of globally significant events, such as the Sharpeville massacre, the aftermath of Aberfan, and the Three Gorges Dam Project. Mr Berry, originally from ...

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 ...