In 1984 police and striking miners clashed violently at Orgreave in South Yorkshire. But now there is growing pressure for an inquiry to investigate what went on that day. Orgreave is an ugly word.

Thousands of miners and police officers clashed at the Orgreave coking site near Rotherham in June 1984 About 200 people have taken part in a rally calling again for an inquiry into the actions of ...

Alan Jones and Ron Stoate by the entrance to the old coking works Alan Jones on railway bridge in Orgreave The bloodiest day of the 1984 miners' strike was orchestrated in Downing Street ...

A MASS picnic and festival will take place this weekend to mark the 30th anniversary of one of the 20th century’s most brutal attacks by the state on its own citizens — the so-called battle of ...

The miners strike 1984 was one of the longest and most brutal in British labour history A community fighting for jobs and survival was wholly denigrated and depicted as violent by the majority of ...

Top Home Office officials admitted policing of pickets at Orgreave during the miners’ strike had been marred by “mistakes, or worse” when they were pressed for an inquiry on policing the strike in ...

South Yorkshire’s Mayor, Oliver Coppard, is backing the government’s commitment to investigate the events of the Battle of ...