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 ...

The Aberfan disaster occurred when a large colliery spoil tip (coal waste heap) collapsed and slid down a mountainside, burying a primary school and several houses in Aberfan, a village in South ...

Aberfan Cemetery is a cemetery near the village of Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil. It is one of five cemeteries in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, and is particularly well known for the graves of 144 victims ...

On the anniversary of the 1966 disaster in which a school was buried by coal waste, politicians are working on a Bill to deal with safety concerns of legacy coal tips Aberfan disaster ‘seared in the ...

On this day in 1966, tragedy struck in Aberfan, Wales, when a colliery spoil tip collapsed and engulfed a primary school and several houses. The disaster claimed the lives of 144 people ...

The in-depth story of the 1966 Aberfan Mine Disaster. Early on October 21, 1966, 140,000 cubic yards of coal waste from the nearby mine slid from the hill above the Aberfan and buried all the ...

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 ...

On this day in 1966, tragedy struck in Aberfan, Wales, when a colliery spoil tip collapsed and engulfed a primary school and several houses. The disaster claimed the lives of 144 people, 116 of whom ...