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 ...

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 ...

The return of Netflix's hit drama "The Crown" after a two-year hiatus spotlights a dark chapter in modern British history: the Aberfan disaster. The third season charts the royal family between 1964 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Catching up on previous seasons of The Crown before diving into season five? If you're in search of information about the real life Aberfan disaster, read on for our story from 2019: On October 21, ...

On the second day of their visit to Wales, Prince William and Kate Middleton visited the Aberfan Memorial Garden. The royals were there to pay their respects to those who lost their lives in the 1966 ...

On this day in 1966, the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip killed 144 people, 116 of whom were school children, in Aberfan, Glamorgan, Wales. The tip had been created on a mountain slope ...

Or at least, they claimed they had. Shortly after the tragedy at Aberfan, several women and men recalled having eerily specific premonitions of the event. A piano teacher named Kathleen Middleton ...

On the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, Sharon Griffiths, who was at school in a nearby town at the time, gives her memories of that dreadful day THE first we knew was when our French teacher ...

A disaster at Aberfan, a small Welsh community, almost 60 years ago forged an unusual link between the community and the queen. The atmosphere there today — quiet grief coupled with brief flashes of ...