Welsh council owed whopping £640,000 by trust that ran its leisure services
The trust which used to run leisure and cultural services in Merthyr Tydfil owes the council over £640,000. Merthyr Tydfil ...
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Our final day camp of 2024
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Aberfan survivors 'still traumatised'
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 ...
The Northern Echo16d
'The Quiet Man of Magnum' book documents Ian Berry's career
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 ...
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This Day in History on October 21: The Aberfan Disaster
On this day in 1966, tragedy struck in Aberfan, Wales, when a colliery spoil tip collapsed and engulfed a primary school and several houses. The disaster claimed the lives of 144 people ...
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This Day in History on October 21: The Aberfan Disaster
On this day in 1966, tragedy struck in Aberfan, Wales, when a colliery spoil tip collapsed and engulfed a primary school and several houses. The disaster claimed the lives of 144 people, 116 of whom ...
Daily Mail24d
The tears flowed as the Queen stood alone at the remains of the school in Aberfan where 116 children died - it was the only time I saw her cry in public, writes BRIAN HOEY
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 ...
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On This Day, Oct. 21: Kateri Tekakwitha becomes 1st Native American saint
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 ...
The Irish Times25d
Aberfan disaster ‘seared in the minds’ of Welsh people as work continues to ensure it cannot happen again
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 ...
Slate25d
The Aberfan Disaster, in This Week’s Open Thread
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 ...
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Survivors mark 50 years since Aberfan disaster
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 ...