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17 days ago

Pete Wilcox says point of investigation into infamous 1984 clashes with police is to ‘enable communities to move on’

Former miners will finally get the chance to speak the truth about their experien…

18 days ago

The Battle of Orgreave saw bloody clashes between police and pickets outside the Orgreave Coking Plant in South Yorkshire on June 18, 1984, leaving scores of mineworkers injured.

8 months ago

First they came for the soldiers, who so valiantly risked their lives serving Queen and Country against the IRA.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said the statutory inquiry will investigate the events surrounding the clashes between police and miners at the Orgreave Coking Plant.
Police violently clashed with striking miners at Orgreave in South Yorkshire on 18 June 1984.

Move follows decades of campaigning over violent policing and collapsed prosecutions at South Yorkshire coking plant

More than four decades after the violent policing at Orgreave during the miners’ st…

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