Hers is one of the most harrowing yet tender stories I have ever heard. On October 21, 1966, cadet nurse Dianne Thomas answered the call for help at Aberfan and was given a task that haunts her still.
It also explains why she did not return until today, joining the King, Queen and Prince of Wales to mark the 60th anniversary of one of the darkest days in post-war history.
Dianne was sent to the makeshift mortuary in a local chapel to wash some of the bodies killed by the 150,000-ton wall of mud and slurry from the coal tip that engulfed
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