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Miners' Strike

Light at the end of the tunnel?

A miner at Thoresby

Saturday, March 14, 2009

THE legacy of the miners' strike is a British power dependency on foreign coal worth three billion pounds a year.

Britain uses around 40 million tons of coal every year to keep the lights burning – but only a third of it is home mined.

Why? Because a...

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News items from the miners' strike 25 years ago

Saturday, March 14, 2009

THE strike provided a silver lining for a couple of local engineering companies. They suddenly picked up business for their replica miners' lamps ......

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Police caught in the middle

Friday, March 13, 2009

Between the striking miners and those who wanted to work stood a thin blue line of police. ANDY SMART spoke to one Notts officer with vivid memories...

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Miners' strike: From housewife to politician

CLOSURE FIGHT: Yvonne Woodhead

Friday, March 13, 2009

MINER'S wife Yvonne Woodhead was a stay-at-home mum until the strike when she found herself on the picket line and addressing eminent Cambridge...

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Ida's army of women put food on the table

Ida Hackett, seated centre, with the Women Against Pit Closures Committee

Friday, March 13, 2009

THEY were ordinary housewives and mums who became extraordinary champions fighting for their beliefs. Notts women, who backed the striking miners in...

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How the miners' strike divided Cotgrave

Picketers at Cotgrave attack a National Coal Board lorry in the 1984 strike

Thursday, March 12, 2009

The pit dispute of 1984 was a bitter clash between two political heavyweights – Margaret Thatcher and Arthur Scargill. Caught in the middle were...

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Cotgrave today - 25 years after the miners strike

Thursday, March 12, 2009

SINCE 1997, £21m of public money and £150m worth of private investment has been spent on regenerating former coalfield communities in Notts by...

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Cotgrave during the 1984/85 miners strike

Mick Chewings

Thursday, March 12, 2009

WITH family and friends threatened by pit closures in South Wales, Cotgrave miner Mick Chewings vehemently supported the strike 25 years ago. He did...

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The day the strike tide turned

Brian Walker

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The pit dispute of 1984 was a bitter clash between two political heavyweights – Margaret Thatcher and Arthur Scargill. Caught in the middle were...

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Strike anniversary talk

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

ARTHUR Scargill, the fiery leader of the 1984 miners' strike, will address a sell-out Notts audience to mark the dispute's 25th anniversary. Scargill,...

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