ABERFAN DISASTER 50TH ANNIVERSARY

It was on 21 October, 1966 in Aberfan the children were excited because it was their last day before the autumn school holiday.

Aberfan is a small mining village in South Wales. There was only a small school in the village with over 120 children for the younger ones.

There were coal tips all around at the back on the hillside. It had been raining heavily for two days and at 9.15 am the coal tip no 7 which was at the back of the school started to move. The coal dust was saturated with rain water.

More than 1,400,000 cubic feet of coal slurry took just a few second to cover the village. The main impact took the school. In those few second 116 school children, 5 teacher from the school and 28 adults were killed. At some points the slurry was 40ft deep.

One man lost his wife, two sons and his house. He has not even got a photo of them.

Men and women tried desperately to dig out the children and adults. It was in vain for the majority. Only 25 children were found  alive. The village became known to have lost a whole generation.

It feels incredible that 50 years have already gone by and most of children found alive and the rest of the village have not moved and still living there.

Parents of the few children found alive kept them indoor for a months for not to hurt parents who lost their children.

To add insult to injury the National Coal Board did not accept responsibility for the disaster. Parents who lost one or more children were just paid £1,000 compensation with the pathetic excuse that they were from a poor area and would get spoiled with large sums of money.

Furthermore, the villagers had to spend £150,000 from their charitable fund to flatten the remaining slug heap.

On the 21 October, 2016 there will be a premier of a major new choral work created to mark the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster.  There is also a CD made. A memorial service will be held for the villager on the anniversary which falls again on the last day before the autumn half-term holiday.

HORSEMEAT SCANDAL IS A CRIME

Owen Patterson; Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is still not taking it seriously enough that the so called horsemeat scandal is nothing but a crime.  These people and they were all in it and apparently have been warned in 2011 which is two years ago kept purposely quiet because again money was involved.

It is a known fact that most of the horses used and groomed for racing, show jumping, steeple chasing etc are not put out to grace for the rest of their lives. Once their best is over they are killed and sold for horsemeat.  The very point is that especially these horses are constantly injected and especially with painkiller “bute”.

Therefore is it’s not a scandal but a crime to sell horse meat mixed with beef and labelled it as 100 per cent beef.  The very fact to label it as Beef is pure fraud to start with and therefore a crime but will the public see any heads on the top roll, of course not. 

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Furthermore, the horse meat was in ‘beefburgers’ which is eaten by many children.  To stand back and let this happen being fully aware of shows the attitude of the government all together and yet there is still no action from the Prime Minister David Cameron as usual.

It also has to be mentioned the great deal of yet another inquiry. As all the others inquiries it will go through the motion and cost the taxpayers a fortune but ends up with no great conclusion. Only recently with the phone hacking inquiry in which Mr Murdoch and son were not forced to give a truthful answer and the David Cameron to hand over his emails between Ms Brook and Mr Coulson. Mr Cameron even employed Mr Coulson as his Communication Secretary after he was sacked from the Newspaper because of the phone hacking. The action and decision of Mr Cameron are beyond belief.

It is known politics is always murky but these sorts of cases are well passed it for a government to allow it and then stand back hoping it will go away in due course.

CREATOR OF THUNDERBIRDS GERRY ANDERSON - RIP Updated

UPDATE:  16 February 2013 -- It is amazing the great demand of Thunderbird and therefore it has been decided to make a new series but with cartoons.  Gerry Anderson left such a legacy and so timeless.

Thunderbirds ware a wonderful TV serial for children and even grown up were fascinated. It was the creation of Gerry Anderson. He also was part of TV hits Captain Scarlet, Stingray and Joe 90. He gave children a wonderful time with modern, technical ideas but still something to dream about it and a lot to imagination.

Sadly Gerry Anderson died but they certainly honoured him for his legacy he left behind. At his cremation a full seized replica of Lady Penelope’s Rolls Royce was driven to his funeral. The FAB1 stopped outside the crematorium in Reading, Berks and the funeral was attended by 300 people. They heard tributes to Gerry about his wonderful creations.

The flowers were arranged in the shape of transport Thunderbird 2 and placed on top of his coffin. The marionettes from these TV series were also on display.

Gerry died at the age of 83 in December 2012 and his son Jamie added to the great tribute of his dad’s life that he left a phenomenal legacy behind.

Well, Gerry Anderson may you rest in peace but all your fans of these TV series will never forget these wonderful and spellbinding experience watching Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Stingray. The children certainly were clued to the TV.

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It must have been such a satisfactory life to look back and realised to have given so much pleasure to young and old. Even the mothers stopped working and watch these fascination TV series. He certainly was given a great tribute at his funeral and he deserved it.