Orgreave

The 1984 Battle of Orgreave.

Northumbria Police admits destroying documents relating to the Battle Of Orgreav...
Northumbria Police have confirmed they've destroyed records relating to the “Battle of Orgreave” during the Miners’ Strike – to the dismay of campaigners who ar...

Ken Capstick, who was Stillingfleet branch delegate for the NUM during the miners strike 20 years ago.

Miners' union stalwart who was at Battle of Orgreave dead at 83

A scene from the Battle of Orgreave.

Battle of Orgreave: Inquiry into clashes with police getting closer

Battle of Orgreave.

Battle of Orgreave: Inquiry should be done ‘properly and effectively’ says mayor

Nichola Jones is director of the University of Sheffield AMRC Training Centre.

Apprenticeships can transform lives - Nichola Jones

A lone banner carries pickets' taunts at mounted police outside Orgreave coking plant in June 1984.

MP urges Government to open inquiry into battle of Orgreave

Waverley Lakes & Country Park on the former Orgreave Colliery site

How Orgreave has been transformed 40 years after Miners' Strike

The aftermath of the violence outside the coking plant at Orgreave in South Yorkshire.

'It was a peaceful picket but we walked into a set-up'

A twisted sign, felled concrete posts and a broken wall following violence outside a coking plant in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, in 1984. PIC: PA/PA Wire

Why an inquiry into the Battle of Orgreave needs to be set up

A twisted sign, felled concrete posts and a broken wall following violence outside a coking plant in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, in 1984. PIC: PA/PA Wire

Why we must do more for mining communities - Stephanie Peacock

The value of degree apprenticeships, and role of firms like Sheffield-based Tribosonics, is becoming wider known.

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An apprentice working at the Advance Manufacturing Research Centre that is located on the site of the former Orgreave coking plant that became a symbol of industrial strife in the 1984-85 Miners' Strike.

The AMRC complex transformed Orgreave and can now revolutionise the North’s econ...

The Advanced Manufacturing and Research Centre, which is based in the shadow of the former coking plant at Orgreave in South Yorkshire.

Call to capitalise on world-leading research centre near Sheffield

Jeremy Corbyn in Dinnington, South Yorkshire. Pic: PA

We're offering something different, says Jeremy Corbyn on last-gasp trip to key ...

Police clash with protesters on Kenwood Road, Sheffield, at the height of the tree-felling scandal.

Echoes of dark Orgreave days

Author James Clarke

How miners' strike provided rich seam of drama for debut novelist

VIOLENCE: The Battle of Orgreave remains a source of anger for South Yorkshires mining communities 34 years on.

Call for new panel to study Orgreave archives

Police arrest a tree campaigner on Kenwood Road yesterday. Picture: Scott Merrylees

Sheffield campaigners dig in for tree fight in defiance of policing tactics

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn makes a speech on the general election campaign trail in Rotherham.

The key points from Labour's leaked Election 2017 'manifesto'

Home Secretary Amber Rudd

Orgreave campaigners tell Home Secretary they will '˜not give up' as they march ...

The Advanced Manufacturing Park in Rotherham

Centre's big role in reviving Yorkshire's mining heartland
A technology centre is playing a major role in reviving the fortunes of Yorkshire's former industrial heartland.
By The Newsroom

The Battle of Orgreave

Ministers face second grilling in urgent debate on inquiry rejection

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Dennis Skinner MP and shadow home secretary Andy Burnham attend a rally for the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign

Orgreave demo ramps up pressure for inquiry as crunch meeting looms

Panto star Martin Barrass is said to be in intensive care after a motorcycle accident

Five things you need to know in Yorkshire today

Labour leadership contender Owen Smith.

Labour's Owen Smith promises '˜practical socialist revolution'

New Interim Chief Constable Stephen Watson

New South Yorkshire Police chief would welcome Orgreave review

Overcrowding at Hillsborough, where 96 football fans died.

Police watchdog aims to persuade Hillsborough witnesses who won't cooperate

Arthur Scargill, leader of the National Union of Miners, faces a line of policemen at the Battle of Orgreave, 1984

Theresa May ally calls for Orgreave investigation

The Olympic Legacy Park will give the local population, including school pupils, the opportunity to take part in research

Creation of a '˜living lab' will promote the best of health

New Labour MP Gill Furniss uses her first Prime Minister's Questions to ask David Cameron to commit to an inquiry into the policing of the Orgreave miners strike. Photo credit should read: Joe Giddens/PA Wire

Fresh pressure on Government to announce Orgreave inquiry decision

Andy Burnham

Burnham to press on Orgreave

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July 1: Does the evidence of Orgreave reveal a police conspiracy?
From: Chris Skidmore, NUM Yorkshire, Miners’ Offices, Huddersfield Road, Barnsley.
By The Newsroom

A member of the picket inspecting the police outside the Orgreave Coking plant near Rotherham during the miners' dispute, as the miners' strike started in Yorkshire in early March 1984

Police watchdog slated over Orgreave report

Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper

Watchdog failing in Yorkshire

Arthur Critchlow, Yorkshire miner

Artwork considers the life of miners

Dr Katy Shaw at Leeds Beckett University. Picture by Bruce Rollinson

Yorkshire’s Dark Heart - 30 years after pit closures

Miners Strike 1984 Orgreave Coking Plant Foot police charge pickets - 31st May 1984

Orgeave needs Hillsborough style inquiry

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