In the autumn budget, the UK government provided the Welsh government with £25m for essential work on disused coal tips. The ...

In 1966, a spoil-heap landslide crushed Pantglas Primary School in the coal-mining village of Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil, killing 144 including 116 children. Coal tip safety in Wales is a ...

The deputy first minister of Wales has said the "blame game of the past ... who said more needed to be done to ensure their safety. A coal tip is made up of waste material from coal mining, many of ...

He said: "In December, I introduced the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales ... disaster of 1966, where a coal tip collapse claimed the lives of 116 children and 28 adults at Pantglas Junior School.

Torrential rain brought by Storm Bert led to a coal tip landslide ... on the legacy of mining in Wales, with one resident saying it made her think back to the fatal Aberfan disaster in 1966.

The Aberfan disaster remains ... was in Aberfan, Wales, bearing witness to the aftermath of one of the country’s worst mining accidents in history. On 21 October 1966 a coal tip containing ...