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.

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

Less than twenty years later, and just a little way away, the worst British mining disaster ever befell workers at Senghenydd, near Caerphilly. On that fateful day in the year before the start of ...

A collection of images relating the Six Bells Colliery mining disaster of 28 June 1960. What are these? Search term: BBC © 2014 The BBC is not responsible for the ...

Nearly 60 years since the Aberfan disaster, which killed 144 ... in securing waste left behind by coal mining operations. Earlier this year, the Welsh government said up to £600m could be needed ...