Some people are in hotels or with relatives and one couple said it was horrendous before Christmas.

Cuts to services loom as Welsh councils face a £500m budget gap.

Council bosses are doing "everything we can" to make sure the UK's largest opencast is restored.

The business cut hundreds of jobs in the town in 2009 but has been part of the area since the 1940s.

Neither the firm behind the UK's largest opencast mine nor the council will appear at an inquiry.

Aberfan Community Centre was built in 1973 as a place "to heal and come together" after 1966 disaster.

Ffos-y-Fran mine will close on November 30 with about 180 job losses.

Luke Cresswell says the first thing he heard after a gas explosion was his girlfriend screaming.