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A film poem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, written by Owen Sheers and performed by a stellar cast of Wales's best-known acting talent, including Michael Sheen ...
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 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 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 ...
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 ...
It's been nearly 60 years since the Aberfan disaster, which killed 144 people ... of insider trading after stocks soar 20 accidental movie filming mishaps that were left in the final cut What ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...