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 ...

The destruction caused by the landslide reminded Tina of the Aberfan disaster which cost 116 children ... and surrounding houses on 21 October 1966. "I was reading the testimonials from Aberfan ...

October 21, 1966, the day when 116 children and 28 ... marks one of the most harrowing events in Queen Elizabeth’s reign. The Aberfan disaster was always going to be a key storyline in season ...

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 ...

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 remains one of the most devastating ... the country’s worst mining accidents in history. On 21 October 1966 a coal tip containing 140,000 cubic yards of waste collapsed ...

When a coal spoil tip slid down the mountain above Aberfan in October 1966, it engulfed the village school. A total of 116 children and 28 adults died in the disaster, which reverberated around ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...