At around quarter past nine on the morning of Friday 21 October 1966, disaster struck the coal mining village of Aberfan in South Wales. What began as a typical morning 56 years ago escalated quickly ...
At around quarter past nine on the morning of Friday 21 October 1966, disaster struck the coal mining village of Aberfan in South Wales. What began as a typical morning 56 years ago escalated quickly ...
The return of Netflix's hit drama "The Crown" after a two-year hiatus spotlights a dark chapter in modern British history: the Aberfan disaster. The third season charts the royal family between 1964 ...
Survivors of the Aberfan disaster in Wales 55 years ago have said they were subjected as children to stressful medical tests, described by one as “torture”. On 21 October 1966, 116 children and 28 ...
The Prince and Princess of Wales headed to Aberfan in South Wales to pay their respects to the families who lost children in the 1966 disaster Kate Middleton and Prince William are paying respects to ...
A huge coal waste tip piled high above the village of Aberfan suddenly collapsed and slid down into the village, covering houses and the local school. The tragedy shocked people all over the world, as ...
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 slope ...
Coal tip safety must be fully funded to keep communities safe from another Aberfan disaster, a Plaid Cymru MP has said. In 1966, a spoil-heap landslide crushed Pantglas Primary School in the ...
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Welsh government can't guarantee lives won't be lost in another coal tip disaster like Aberfan
It is "difficult" to give a "cast iron guarantee" that lives won't be lost because of a coal tip disaster, the deputy first minister of Wales has told Sky News. Nearly 60 years since the Aberfan ...
Few other positions in business can match the chairmanship of Britain’s huge National Coal Board, held for six years by blunt, ebullient Baron Robens of Woldingham, 56. “Lord Coal” or “Honest Alf,” as ...
It is often said that a man is best judged by his behaviour in crisis or adversity. This might also be said of groups of men and social institutions. Judged by such a standard the ruling class, new ...
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