On October 21, 1966, a coal waste tip on a hill above Aberfan, Wales suddenly collapsed, surged down a hillside, and engulfed ...

The Prince and Princess of Wales headed to Aberfan in South Wales to pay their respects to the families who lost children in the 1966 disaster Kate Middleton and Prince William are paying respects to ...

The Prince and Princess of Wales spent a moving morning visiting survivors and relatives of a mining tragedy in Aberfan Kate Middleton and Prince William spent a moving morning paying their respects ...

The miners of Durham still sing an old song with the grim, true refrain: "There is blood, blood on the coal." In Aberfan it is the blood of children. Massive disaster has produced the same effects as ...

Survivors of the Aberfan disaster in Wales 55 years ago have said they were subjected as children to stressful medical tests, described by one as “torture”. On 21 October 1966, 116 children and 28 ...

At around quarter past nine on the morning of Friday 21 October 1966, disaster struck the coal mining village of Aberfan in South Wales. What began as a typical morning 56 years ago escalated quickly ...

Britain today fell silent as the nation remembered one of the bleakest chapters in the history of Wales – the Aberfan disaster. Fifty years after the tragic events of October 21, 1966, the community ...

On the morning of October 21, 1966, a coal waste tip collapsed and crushed Pantglas Junior School. 116 children and 28 adults were killed in minutes—buried where they sat. Trump fires Homeland ...

A man from Merthyr Tydfil is calling for more recognition of his godmother Nansi Williams, who died saving the lives of five ...