21/10/2016 Newsround


21/10/2016

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Hello everyone, Martin here with all the news this Friday.

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First, commemorations have been taking place to remember a disaster

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that hit the small mining village of Aberfan in Wales.

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50 years ago today, a waste heap collapsed on top of buildings

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Across Wales people held a minute's silence,

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including these school kids, people also released balloons

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And Prince Charles visited the Aberfan Memorial Garden

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Jenny's been looking into what happened.

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Aberfan in south Wales. More than 50 years ago the region was an

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important source of coal comedies to heat homes and powertrains. The area

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was heavily mined and four years the leftover soil dug out with the coal

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was heaped in big piles above the village. But the ground wasn't

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stable. It soaked up water, loosening the rock below. Then on

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the 21st of October 1966, the build-up of waste suddenly collapsed

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and slid down into the surrounding area, covering houses and the local

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school. Huge rescue efforts were made, but a lot of people died. This

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memorial garden is one of the ways people in Aberfan remember what

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happened here. Jeff Edwards was at the school when the disaster

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happened. 50 years on, how did it change your community? The village

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has changed completely, because in 1966 it was a thriving community. If

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you look at it today, it's still a vibrant community, a new generation

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of young people have come about, and I think it's important for the

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people of Aberfan that the community has a future. And those children are

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our future. Before the disaster there had been questions raised

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about how safe the waste pile was but nothing was changed. Afterwards,

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an investigation found that the National coal board were at fault

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for ignoring the warnings. The disaster in Aberfan was devastating

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for many families and people across Britain were shocked about what

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happened. As a result, new safety rules about mines and quarries were

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made to keep villagers, schools and the areas around them safe, and to

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stop anything like this from happening again. At this school in

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Aberfan, children have been remembering the disaster 50 years

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on. I think it's important because it was a big thing that happened and

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we never to happen again. We have assemblies, we do work on it in the

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class. It's emotional because when you think of all the people who lost

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their lives at such a young age, it's very sad. But if we look at the

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happy side, we look at the future and we remember them in that way,

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not in the past. In school we've been doing a painting of Aberfan and

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the future. I painted the memorial garden and the yard with the

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children playing in the school. If you want to know more

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about what happened in Aberfan then That's also where you can find

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lots of info on what to do Next, we're talking

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Strictly Come Dancing, and ex-Newsround presenter Ore Oduba

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has surprised us all with his moves! He's busy in rehearsals today

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but managed to send us this. You might recognise this girl

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from Saturday nights. We are rehearsing today,

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believe it or not, there is a lot We had to practice walking down

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them. Jo and I are dancing waltz

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this week, which is very different to what we did last

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week, the jive. And we got, what did we get

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last week? The biggest score

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in week four in the And hopefully we'll have

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another great week. We will see you Saturday

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night, BBC One. Hopefully we'll be back

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for another week. That's all from me, Newsround's back

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tomorrow with Leah. You can head online for this week 's

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weirdest stories.

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