Ministers understand concern over Orgreave inquiry says PM

By The Newsroom
Published 17th May 2016, 20:05 BST
Updated 17th May 2016, 21:21 BST
A scene from the Battle of Orgreave, the clash between miners and police in 1984.A scene from the Battle of Orgreave, the clash between miners and police in 1984.
A scene from the Battle of Orgreave, the clash between miners and police in 1984.
THE BATTLE of Orgreave is the confrontation that took place on 18 June 1984 between police and picketing miners near Rotherham.

Officers attended the British Steel Corporation (BSC) coking plant in Orgreave, where pickets wanted to stop lorry loads of coke leaving for the steelworks.

The strike lasted a year in total but the clash in June is considered the most violent day of protest. Mounted police were sent in to break up the picket, as well as officers in riot gear.

Fifty people were injured but when the cases came to court, all were abandoned after evidence provided by police was deemed unreliable.

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