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 ...

The Aberfan disaster remains one of the most devastating ... then a member of the royal press office, said in the documentary Elizabeth: Our Queen. “It was one of the few occasions in which ...

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 fire at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington killed 72 people in June 2017, just eight months after the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. Denise Morgan was 11 when her sister died after ...

The story of the Aberfan disaster will be told with "truth and dignity" in the new series of The Crown, its director has said. Benjamin Caron said it was important that the 1966 tragedy was marked ...

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 ...

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 Aberfan disaster was always going to be a key storyline in season three of The Crown – as writer Peter Morgan strove to tell the tale of one of peacetime’s darkest days though the eyes of ...

Nearly 60 years since the Aberfan disaster, which killed 144 people when coal waste slid down the side of a mountain into a school, £130m has been invested in securing waste left behind by coal ...

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 ...