The in-depth story of the 1966 Aberfan Mine Disaster. Early on October 21 ... several residential buildings being demolished, a local school was destroyed, making the Aberfan accident a full ...

Those who survived the disaster told tales of hearing the “crying and screaming” of children as the school was buried alive. Others recounted how staff at the Aberfan primary school saved the ...

Almost one in three survivors of the Aberfan mining disaster were still suffering from ... On October 21 1966 a coal slagheap collapsed on to a primary school in Aberfan, south Wales, killing ...

Residents who live near disused coal tips in South Wales say lessons have not been learned from the Aberfan disaster nearly 60 years on. Their comments come after a disused coal tip in Cwmtillery ...

The mistake that cost a village its children School pupils to hold Aberfan anniversary silence ... article to mark the 50th anniversary of the disaster in 2016. Each time the otherwise stoic ...

MILLIONS of people across Wales marked the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster yesterday — a tragedy which left ... engulfing Pantglas junior school on October 21 1966. A day of commemorative ...

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 ...

Aberfan disaster: how many people died & why did the Queen delay her visit? AT 9.15am on October 21, 1966, a disaster struck a small Welsh mining community which would devastate the village for a ...

Now actress Olivia Colman has recreated the moment the monarch met families affected by the Aberfan disaster in 1966 ... slurry engulfing Pantglas Junior School in the village.

Then a year ago a new slow motion disaster came ... of the parents were old school friends of his). The visible trauma he witnessed and later suffered himself from Aberfan, led to him switching ...

The origin of the Bureau is the Aberfan disaster of October 1966, a tragic incident where a colliery tip slid down a mountainside to engulf a village school and a row of houses. A total of 144 ...