The government has announced it is launching a statutory inquiry into the violent policing at Orgreave during the infamous miner’s strike of 1984. Dubbed the ‘Battle of Orgreave’ by historians, the ...

What was once a hive of industry has been transformed into a new community which will eventually have thousands of homes as well as offices, schools and retail space, while new jobs are provided by ...

A national inquiry will be held into one of the most violent days of the year-long miners' strike in the 1980s, the government has announced. The inquiry would look into the clashes between police and ...

Tuesday marks the 40 th anniversary of a grim day in U.K. history: the Battle of Orgreave when police clashed with striking workers at a coking plant, leaving more 100 people injured. Those shocking ...

LONDON — The British government said Monday that it will hold a public inquiry into the “Battle of Orgreave,” a violent confrontation between police and striking coal miners that became a defining ...

Police records relating to one of the most violent confrontations of the 1984 miners’ strike “should not be going missing or being destroyed”, a Home Office minister has said. Lord Hanson of Flint ...

Embankment Films has landed a miners’ strike feature and an ITV doc on a drug that could treat dwarfism. Strike: An Uncivil War will be released 18 June, telling the story of the Battle of Orgreave, ...