The government has announced it is launching a statutory inquiry into the violent policing at Orgreave during the infamous miner’s strike of 1984. Dubbed the ‘Battle of Orgreave’ by historians, the ...

A national inquiry will be held into one of the most violent days of the year-long miners' strike in the 1980s, the government has announced. The inquiry will look into the clash that involved police ...

Clashes outside a coking plant 39 years ago led to 95 miners being arrested Thousands of people will join a protest on Saturday to keep up the pressure for an inquiry into one of the most violent ...

A 'furious' MP is demanding answers after police admitted destroying documents relating to the miners' strike and the Battle of Orgreave. In one of the darkest days of the year-long dispute riot ...

They were the images that defined the miners' strike. In June 1984, police and striking pit workers clashed in violent scenes at Orgreave in South Yorkshire. More than 40 years later, the site of the ...

A new public inquiry will "uncover the truth" behind the so-called "Battle of Orgreave", a bloody fight between striking miners and police officers in the 1980s. One hundred and twenty people were ...

THERE will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave in 1984, Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced. Ms Rudd said she made the ...

About 10,000 strikers and 5,000 police officers clashed at the coking plant near Rotherham in June 1984. Former miners' leader Arthur Scargill called for an inquiry on Wednesday. Interim Chief ...

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