The 40th year of the Miner’s Strike in Scotland is marked in a new ... many meetings held in former mining communities in Fife, East Ayrshire and Lothians. Ms Bird said: "It has been a real ...

The recent revelations about the secret tactics and aims of the government during the 1984 miners ... the strike centres and we were able to prove this on numerous occasions. One example was when the ...

Miners' strike memories, from throwing stones at "scabs ... 6pm from Kilmarnock Bus Station due to anti-social behaviour. East Renfrewshire Council was criticised over "inadequate" food packs ...

The daughter of a mining union official has spoken for the first time about how her family faced kidnap threats during the 1984 miners' strike ... Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, and ...

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 ...

But there was great camaraderie.” The miners’ strike started in Yorkshire in early March 1984 and within days half the country’s mineworkers had walked out in protest at pit closures.

Miners who took part ... In the years after the strike, all of Durham and Northumberland's pits closed – with Ellington becoming the last of north-east England's deep coal mines to shut in ...

Ronnie Peterson said he still did not speak to those who broke the strike Miners who took part in one ... with Ellington becoming the last of north-east England's deep coal mines to shut in ...