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From Sir David Llewellyn Sir,-The Bishop of Liandaff has asked the public to write at once in their thousands to the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Wales, demanding action to survey and make safe the coal tips of South Wales. The advice co...

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FROM OUR SOUTH WALES CORRESPONDENT- -ABERFAN, OCT. 27 The small hillside cemetery at Aberfan was crowded with about 10,000 people, mostly men, for the funeral today of 81 children and one woman killed in Friday's disaster. For up to an hour they stoo...

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Firemen in the ruins of Pantglas Junior School, at Aberfan, after ft had been engulfed by mining slag. Their task was to make electrical and gas installations safe while rescue workers dug for survivors (below) Human chains manhandle slag away from t...

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FROM OUR STAFF REPORTER- -ABERFAN, OcT. 26 Hundreds of local people gathered in two churches and a chapel here tonight to attend funeral services for the 79 children and one mother who will be buried in the two communal graves tomorrow. Throughout th...

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PARLIAMENT: MONDAY, OCTOBER 24 HOUSE OF COMMONS The SPEAKER took the Chair at 2.30 p.m. MR. CLEDWYN HUGHES, Secretary of State for Wales (Anglesey, Lab.), made a statement on the Aberfan disaster. All members will have already shared in the nation's ...

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FROM OUR SOUTH WALES CORRESPONDENT- -ABERFAN OCT. 28 One week after the Aberfan disaster it was still unclear here tonight how many perished when the slag tip buried Pantglas school and some houses, althougli the earlier estimate of about 180 is now ...

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PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE, LONDON, E.C.4. TELEPHONE: CENTRAL 2000 The Government have done well in speedily appointing LoRD JUSTICE EDMUND DAVIES to head the inquiry into the Aberfan disaster. At present the grief of the children's parents is turned into...

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FROM OUR SOUTH WALES CORRESPONDENT- -ABERFAN, OCT. 23 Units of the Army and Navy have been called in to help the recovery team to search for remaining victims buried under the sludge-covered wreckage. Most of the school has been uncovered but it may ...

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CONTRAST IN PIT SAFETY FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT The Aberfan slag heap tragedy points to the contrast in mine safety regula- tions above and below ground. From the pithead downwards, miners say, they cannot move a pace without encounter- ing ...

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Lord Justice Edmund Davies has been chosen by the Govern ment to head the public inquiry into " aU the circumstances " of the Aberfan colliery tip disaster. The figures issued last night were: bodies recovered 137; identi. fied 122 (106 children, 16 ...

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