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The Independent UK
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Bronwen Weatherby

Clock stopped at the moment of Aberfan disaster to be displayed in museum

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A clock that stopped the moment an unstable coal tip hit a primary school in south Wales, killing 116 children, is to be displayed in a museum.

The Aberfan disaster, on October 21 1966, was one of the worst in British history and came after the National Coal Board ignored repeated warnings that the tip was unsafe.

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