Surveying the sombre gravestones of the 116 child victims of the Aberfan disaster, Bernard and Andrew Thomas pick out the names of their school friends. There is tragic Hywell Evans, who died aged ...

In fact, her reaction to the disaster in Aberfan was said to be one of the biggest regrets of her reign. A total of 116 children and 28 adults were killed when a colliery spoil tip collapsed ...

The devastating Aberfan disaster in 1966 claimed the lives of 116 children and 28 adults A manhunt was launched while a school and childcare centre were placed into lockdown in a Welsh mining village.

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 ...

In 1966, 116 children and 28 adults were killed when a coal waste tip came crashing onto a school and its surrounding homes Fifty-five years may have passed since the Aberfan disaster but Jeff ...

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 ...

Hundreds of people will gather to remember the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. A total of 116 children and 28 adults lost their lives on October 21, 1966, after a huge coal waste tip ...

Builder Steve Collins (65) loved his local pub, the Angel Inn, so much that he bought it in 2021 when it was threatened with closure. The pub had always been at the centre of community life in the ...

Part Nine: Epilogue - 'Aberfan is different...' 55 years on, survivors of the disaster are looking to the future - as well as the past.

A survivor of the Aberfan disaster has spoken publicly for the first time, 50 years after the coal tip collapsed on to his school in South Wales. Gerald Kirwaun was eight years old when he was ...