In just minutes, 140,000 cubic yards of coal waste buried a Welsh village and its school. 116 children and 28 adults were lost. This is the story of Aberfan.

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 ...

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 ...

Dewsbury Arts Group are now rehearsing their fifth main production of the season, The Revlon Girl by Neil Anthony Docking.

In the autumn budget, the UK government provided the Welsh government with £25m for essential work on disused coal tips. The ...

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 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 ...

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 compelling the police to tell the ...

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 ...