But 40 years ago, hundreds of policemen from the East of England played their part in one of the defining coal mining events in British history; the 1984 miners' strike. Willie Smith/BBC Arthur ...

Miners strike 1984: the beginning of a struggle that decided the future of many North East communities. The miners strike saw Margaret Thatcher and the Tory government lock horns with NUM ...

Forty years after the miners ... and parts of East Lothian - with the Fife coalfield, including parts of Clackmannanshire and Stirling and a small area of Falkirk, and the Ayrshire/Lanarkshire ...

It has been 40 years to the day since miners across the UK embarked ... Sian James was MP for Swansea East from 2005 to 2015 After the strike ended in March 1985, Sian carried on going to meetings ...

It has been four decades since the beginning of the 1984-1985 Miners’ Strike ... Yorkshire, Scotland, North East England, and Kent. The strike, which was one of Britain’s longest and most brutal ...

The year-long miners' strike, that started in March 1984, dominated the news for 12 months. It's been described as 'a site of contested memories' and it still evokes strong feelings in those who ...

“On the west coast in Ayrshire, at one time 14,000 coal miners mined 4 million tonnes of coal annually - and a certain Keir Hardie founded the Ayrshire Miners Union that led to the National Union of ...

A Northumberland MP has called on the Prime Minister to launch an inquiry into the policing of the miners' strike in order to uncover "the truth" after four decades. The Prime Minister said he had ...