Dunblane

I was at the Aberfan disaster, I lived there. It was not the piles of waste on the tips, all the valleys had them. The cause was the tip had been placed on on underground stream, my father attended that school as did I. For years the main road would have slurry on it. The year before the disaster the head of the school was photographed on the front page of The Merthyr Express handing in a complaint regarding the slurry . The village knew the stream was there but the N.C.B. denied all knowledge . The people who died in Aberfan were killed by the N.C.B. Unlike Hamilton there was no question of an unstable mind, the deaths were caused by the owners of the pit who started the tipping and the N.C.B. Who took over the pit. Fifty years ago this October, doesn't seem fifty years , seems very recent.

I feel so deeply for the people of Dunblane

Yes Aberfan really got to me. That would have been avoidable if they had paid more attention to the safety of the piles of mining waste piled up on the high sides of those valleys.

Tegan, I agree we shouldn't forget. I feel the same about Aberfan.

I think we all remember where we were on that day when the news broke, how we felt and no doubt how we shuddered to ourselves that that could easily have been any one of us. The TV programme did not go over the horror of it in a sensationalist manner, I thought the parents, teachers, police etc. all spoke in a very measured and compassionate way. The mother at the end summed it up well, "It is what it is."

I did see a preview of the program but couldn't bring myself to watch those poor people still suffering I can't imagine how painful it must still be.

I agree. Their pain and suffering must be ongoing but they have faced it with such courage and fortitiude. We must never forget events such as this.

I have relatives living near Dunblane, for me it would have been disrespectful not to watch it. Now, as then, the people of the village show great courage and enormous dignity in the face of terrible tragedy. Their suffering deserves to be remembered.

It was important to watch , as many bereaved parents haven't spoken before. They deserve a voice. It was very moving and as an aside, gun laws were changed in this country, because of Dunblane

Why would you want to watch that? Surely you can remember the horror without a tv programme going over it. Let it rest.