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What was the Battle of Orgreave, and why has the government launched an inquiry into it?

The UK’s home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has announced a full inquiry into the Battle of Orgreave, a large, violent clash between the National Union of Mineworkers and South Yorkshire police that took place over 40 years ago.

The Conversation

What happened at the Battle of Orgreave – and why is there an inquiry 40 years laster?

‘The scars can still be felt across the coalfields,’ home secretary Yvette Cooper said

The Independent UK

Government launches Orgreave inquiry, 40 years after clashes at miners’ strike

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

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Ash Regan faces questions over 'ludicrous' costs of prostitution bill

OPPONENTS of Ash Regan’s prostitution bill have questioned the Alba MSP’s cost estimates – after she claimed that it would cost just 50 pence…

The National (Scotland)

Hundreds of workers trapped deep underground in South African gold mine

Rescuers are attempting to provide food to the trapped workers in the three-kilometre-deep Kloof gold mine near Johannesburg

The Independent UK

Starmer should learn from Thatcher about how to take on opponents – Louise Haigh

Louise Haigh, who had served as transport secretary, urged Labour to take action to avoid an ‘existential crisis’ at the next general election.

The Independent UK

Anne Harper obituary

Political activist, co-founder of Women Against Pit Closures and former wife of Arthur Scargill when he was president of the National Union of Mineworkers

The Guardian - UK

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Scottish sex work strategy ‘a mess’ as charity ditched after ‘occult’ claim

Scottish government drops proposed partnership with charity after backlash from violence against women sector

The Guardian - UK

Sex workers hit out at Ash Regan's criminalisation plans

SEX workers have hit out at Ash Regan’s bid to make it illegal to pay for sex in Scotland.

The National (Scotland)

Powering down: end times for the UK’s final coal-fired station

At Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, the turbines will stop spinning for good this year as the UK meets its pledge to ban coal use. We meet staff proud of the site’s 56-year history

The Guardian - UK

For years, I suspected MI5 interfered in the miners’ strike. The truth was even more shocking than I thought

A document buried in the National Archives reveals how the security service abused its power to help the government win, says journalist and author Mark Hollingsworth

The Guardian - UK

Why did the miners strike in 1984? 40th anniversary of historic industrial action

It’s been 40 years since miners around the UK went on strike in what has become known as a momentous part of British history

Evening Standard

Ronnie Campbell obituary

Miner turned Labour MP known for his uncompromising principles and championing his Blyth Valley constituency

The Guardian - UK

Forty years on from the miners’ strike, unions are flexing their muscles

While numbers may not have fully recovered the climate is now in very much in trade unions’ favour

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‘They didn’t understand us at all’: why the miners’ strike still captivates Britain, 40 years on

Artists, writers and film-makers have long been inspired by the stories – and myths – of the 1984-5 strike. But how do those most affected by its legacy feel about the portrayals?

The Guardian - UK

Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain review – the sadness and resentment still simmer

This documentary series to mark 40 years since the strikes is a vivid depiction of people’s lives and identities being shattered. It’s full of new interviews, and powerful emotions

The Conversation

Three-day week, 50 years on: lessons from a previous Conservative government struggling with a cost of living crisis

Midwinter. War in the Middle East. Energy crisis. Rising prices borne disproportionately by low-wage workers, particularly in a public sector squeezed by a “Tories in turmoil” UK government.

International Business Times

Fears For Miners On Second Day Of S.Africa Underground Protest

Frantic families waited at the surface Tuesday for news of more than 2,000 platinum miners who have taken over two shafts in one of South Africa's biggest mine protests in years.

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South African ‘hostage’ miners emerge from underground amid union dispute

Rival unions claim the miners were either held hostage or protesting.

The Independent UK

109 miners escape from gold mine in South Africa but others continue union standoff, official says

A company official says more than 100 miners have escaped from a gold mine in South Africa after being held underground for three days by fellow employees in a union dispute

The Independent UK

Police say miners from a rival union are holding hundreds of colleagues underground in South Africa

Police in South Africa say a group of gold miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding hundreds of colleagues underground for the second day over a union dispute

The Guardian - UK

Tyrone O’Sullivan obituary

Miners’ leader who saved the colliery where he worked from closure by engineering a buyout

Nottingham Post

Funeral details confirmed for councillor described as ‘Mr Mansfield’ who died on Chirstmas Eve

Tributes poured in following his death and now colleagues have remembered him again during the most recent full council meeting since his passing

Wales Online

'Today is not like the 1980s, Rishi Sunak's bid to break the unions is wrong and will fail': Shipton

Rishi Sunak’s bid to introduce new anti-union laws is doomed to failure, argues Political editor-at-large Martin Shipton

The Guardian - UK

Jim Ford obituary

Other lives: Coal miner in Shropshire who supported his colleagues through the strike of 1984-85

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