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 ...

Then a year ago a new slow motion disaster came rolling ... chairman of Public Health Wales. Back then he was a final year medical student who had grown up near to Aberfan. He recalls being ...

Aberfan, Wales Keeping home and business close can ... but modern estimates put the death toll at approximately 12,000. This disaster was so severe that it prompted the British Parliament to ...

Almost one in three survivors of the Aberfan mining disaster were still suffering from ... on to a primary school in Aberfan, south Wales, killing 116 children. Some 145 children survived and ...

The Aberfan disaster was a collapse of a colliery spoil tip which led to the deaths 144 people - including 116 children. A colliery spoil tip is a pile of waste material removed during mining.

just eight months after the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. Denise Morgan was 11 when her sister died after a colliery slip crushed the school in her home village in the south Wales ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...