<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">  <channel>    <title>Burnley Express The Village</title>    <link>https://www.burnleyexpress.net/topic/the-village/rss</link>    <description>Visit now for the latest news direct from Burnley Express The Village and updated throughout the day</description>    <language>en-gb</language>    <copyright>Copyright 2026, Iconic Media Group Ltd</copyright>    <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:49:28 GMT</pubDate>    <dc:date>2026-10-23T19:49:28Z</dc:date>    <dc:language>en-gb</dc:language>    <dc:rights>Iconic Media Group Ltd or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2026</dc:rights>    <atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.burnleyexpress.net/topic/the-village/rss" type="application/rss+xml" />    <link rel="hub" href="https://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" />        <item>          <title><![CDATA[Aberfan: The Village that Fought Back review: This shocking documentary shows how the powerful have always ignored and marginalised the powerless]]></title>          <link>https://www.burnleyexpress.net/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/aberfan-the-village-that-fought-back-review-this-shocking-documentary-shows-how-the-powerful-have-always-ignored-and-marginalised-the-powerless-9305414</link>          <description><![CDATA[Even for someone as ancient as mid-50s me, the appalling disaster in the Welsh mining village of Aberfan has already faded into memory by the time I was old enough to watch John Craven's Newsround. But as Aberfan: The Village that Fought Back (BBC2, Mon, 9pm) showed with devastating poignancy, the scars of the catastrophe inflicted on the village on October 21, 1966, are still fresh.]]></description>          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 08:52:21 GMT</pubDate>          <guid isPermaLink="false">9305414</guid>        <media:content url="https://www.burnleyexpress.net/webimg/b25lY21zOjNmNTU5ZWMxLTIxZWQtNDU2Yi05YTdhLWI4ZDhmMDRmMWE1NDozZTZjMjk3ZS00MGZmLTQ2NjAtOGUxYy03ZWM5YmMyY2E3ZGY=.jpg?width=1200&amp;auto=webp&amp;crop=3%3A2" type="image/jpeg" medium="image">            <media:credit>Mei Williams</media:credit>            <media:text><![CDATA[Dai Evans was one of the Aberfan witnesses who told their stories in a new BBC2 documentary Aberfan: The Village that Fought Back. (Picture: BBC Studios/Mei Williams) -  (Mei Williams)]]></media:text>        </media:content>          <dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Cunnington]]></dc:creator>          <dc:date>2026-10-23T08:52:21+00:00</dc:date>                  </item>  </channel></rss>