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

A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a woman was stabbed in a south Wales valleys village. Police were called to Moy Road in Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil, just before ...

Season three of Netflix's The Crown depicts one of the 20th century's most horrific disasters and Queen Elizabeth's reaction to it. On Oct. 21, the Aberfan disaster occurred in the early hours of the ...

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 escalated quickly into tragedy ...

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 ...

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 ...

A tribute left by Prince Charles at the Aberfan memorial garden has been stolen just days after it was laid on the 50th anniversary of the disaster. The Prince of Wales laid a wreath and message on a ...

The Queen didn't visit the site of the coal mining village tragedy until eight days after it occurred Simon Perry is a writer and correspondent at PEOPLE. He has more than 25 years’ experience at ...

On October 21, 1966, the students and teachers of Pantglas Junior School in Aberfan, a small village in Wales, were about to begin their lessons when disaster struck. A nearby "spoil tip" (or surplus ...

A protest was held after social media posts suggested Aberfan and Merthyr Vale Community Centre would close after 1 April There are growing concerns about the future of a community centre that was ...