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Old 23-10-2016, 00:15   #17
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Re: RIP Aberfan

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Originally Posted by rhyds View Post
To be fair that "water main" may have been the rather huge Brecon Beacons-Cardiff aqueduct. Even if you turned it off straight away it would still be draining for quite a while.
It didn't say what it was, so you could well be right.

I've read on another forum that the NCB paid out £500 per child in compensation.

If this is correct, even adjusting for inflation (£8,732), this seems a very low amount.

Incidentally, the next programme about this is on BBC4 at 8pm tomorrow (film poem), followed at 9pm by concert highlights from the Wales Millennium Centre.

On BBC2 at 1:45am on Monday morning, Huw Edwards looks at the decades long fight for justice.

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