In the first of four extracts from her new memoir, former NUM headquarters staff HILARY CAVE recalls challenging police ...

A veteran judge, Nebojsa Simeunovic turned up dead two months after refusing to order the arrest of miners whose strike would ...

HISTORY was made 40 years ago when the tumultuous, year-long miners’ strike - where thousands of workers downed to... Local ...

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. Amanda McKay's father, Ted McKay, represented miners who ...

Amanda McKay's family were told by police to leave their home during ... how her family faced kidnap threats during the 1984 miners' strike. Amanda McKay's father, Ted McKay, represented miners ...

Miners across South Yorkshire ... Arguably the most well known scene of the strike was the ‘Battle of Orgreave’, where pickets and police forces clashed outside of Orgreave Coking plant ...

For those in the village who remember the strike, he might as well be in exile ... What followed was a year of picket lines, paramilitary police brutality and widespread poverty, as the miners, ...

The miner's strike was one of the ... after they discovered that the police, the public, and the press were harassing the small working-class community of miners that lived in Dulais Valley ...