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 ...

Documentary about the tragedy which struck the Welsh mining village of Aberfan in 1966 when a mountain of coal slurry engulfed a school claiming 144 lives many of ...

The Aberfan Disaster was not just a tragedy - it was a failure of those in power to protect a community from an avoidable disaster. Despite years of warnings about unstable coal tips, no action ...

The Aberfan disaster remains one of the most devastating mining accidents in Welsh history. How truthful was the Netflix series’ account of the incident? This story contains spoilers for episode ...

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 woman displaced after a landslide said "never in a million years" did she think her daughter would hear the same sounds as the people affected by the Aberfan disaster. Tina Honeyfield, from ...

Victims of Hillsborough, Grenfell, the Manchester Arena terror attack and the Aberfan disaster have said decades of suffering could have been avoided if a new charter ...

Andrew Thomas has witnessed two tragedies engulf the Welsh valleys in his lifetime. The first came on October 21, 1966, when he was a six-year-old pupil at Pantglas primary school in Aberfan.

MILLIONS of people across Wales marked the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster yesterday — a tragedy which left 144 people dead, including 116 children. The horrific incident occurred when ...

Victims and relatives of those affected by four major tragedies have come together ahead of the charter being signed in Merthyr Tydfil Victims of Hillsborough, Grenfell, the Manchester Arena ...