Fifty-Two years ago today, at 9:30 in the morning, a colliery waste tip slid down a mountainside and slammed into the very heart of the mining village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. The landslide engulfed a farm cottage,…
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While meandering around the world wide web, I more often than not discover things written about myself, this website and/or people I know well, on countless websites, forums and social media accounts. As regular readers of the Outlaw are undoubtably aware, the greater…
72 CommentsRegular readers and contributors to the site, are only too aware that the Outlaw has been mentioned in a number of investigations and subsequent court cases since 2012; The most significant instance being, during the investigation and trial of a…
31 CommentsEX-TY MAWR HEADMASTER JAILED FOR ASSAULTS
92 CommentsBy the year 1829, a depression had set in the Welsh iron industry which was to last for three long years. As a direct result, the Ironmasters of Merthyr Tydfil made hundred of workers redundant and also severely cut the…
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