28 adults and 116 little children died as a colliery spoil tip collapsed upon a school

You’d be forgiven for thinking that year was famous for but one notable event; it bore witness though to something far more deserving of remembrance which comprises the saddest wholly unnecessary human loss and futility - there befell the people of Wales the most tragic of events, the Aberfan Disaster; 28 adults and 116 little children died as a colliery spoil tip collapsed upon a school. Though the NCB was found to be at fault, there were no prosecutions and it took many years for the remaining tips to be removed - that exercise was forcibly paid in part by monies donated to the Relief Fund. That tragedy really was a mass murder, warning signs were there, but ignored and nobody ever carried the can. Not so different from Bloody Sunday and Hillsborough. Countless times in British history when it took decades for a little justice to be restored