Interesting Facts

21st October 1966 at 09:15 - 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a tip of coal waste slid onto the village of Aberfan in South Wales. At the Tribunal of Inquiry into the Aberfan Disaster, the NCB was found responsible for the disaster, due to "ignorance, ineptitude and a failure of communication". No NCB employee was fired, demoted or even disciplined.

According to the National Grid, on Tuesday 21st October, more energy was created by wind farms in the UK than by our nuclear power stations. (Wind farms made up 14.2 per cent of all power generated, while nuclear power contributed 13.2 per cent. Probably aided by Hurricane Gonzales.)

21st October Apple Day An apple a day keeps the doctor away.  (Especially if you throw it really hard.)