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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.
The first ever full academic study of the Aberfan Disaster - which claimed the lives of 144 children and adults - has been published. The publication of Aberfan - Government and Disasters uses ...
“The Crown,” Netflix’s on-going drama about Queen Elizabeth, tells the story of the 1966 Aberfan coal mine tragedy. Her Majesty visited this Welsh village of 5,000 eight days after a ...
People living in the shadow a quarry near Pontypridd have described their life as a "slow Aberfan disaster", a Senedd committee has heard. Residents near Craig-yr-Hesg quarry in Glyncoch have been ...
Official commemorations of the 40th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster have begun, to remember the 144 people who died in the south Wales town. A total of 116 children lost their lives when a coal ...
People living in the shadow a quarry near Pontypridd have described their life as a "slow Aberfan disaster", a Senedd committee has heard. Residents near Craig-yr-Hesg quarry in Glyncoch have been ...
Over the past seven decades the 90-year-old has documented everything from the Aberfan disaster to The Beatles at the height of Beatlemania. For his latest project David, who made his name ...
Now, with Fear Street: Prom Queen, there’s only one new one and unfortunately, it’s very, very bad. The original Fear Street trilogy, 1994, 1978 and 1666 were well-received by fans but ...
After Jerry Camarillo’s childhood home in Altadena, Calif., burned down, he was determined to rebuild the one-story, midcentury ranch house exactly as it was before the Los Angeles wildfires ...
Sylvia shocked Christer Lindarw when she appeared on a Swedish TV show to give him a rose, which he'd done for her decades earlier Ibl/Shutterstock; BACKGRID Sweden's Queen Silvia wore a yellow ...
Queen Rania was noticeably absent from this year's Independence Day celebrations in Jordan, an event she traditionally attends alongside her husband, King Abdullah II. The reason for her absence ...