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A noise like thunder – then my classroom went black. How I lost my brother, sister and stability to the Aberfan disaster
Gaynor Madgwick remembers her excitement that morning in 1966. It was the last day of term, and she and her siblings would be let out of school at lunchtime. They had got up, three to a bed in their little terraced house in Aberfan, a village in south …