Juliana Heron was part of a support group formed in the area during the 1984 miners' strike, and said she had tears in her eyes. The councillor for Houghton said: "We wanted to remind people what ...

The Ratcliffe-on-Soar station in central England is finishing its final shift at midnight after more than half a century of ...

LGSM came together to support the British miners during the year-long strike of 1984-5. There were 11 LGSM groups throughout the country. London was the largest. The new film Pride is sure to be a ...

Tens of thousands of miners walked out in 1984 over plans by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government to close more than 20 coal pits. The strike lasted a year, divided ...

REGARDING your report (March 7) on local support for the miners’ strike in 1984, you might like to know that schools in Camden also supported the strikers. As a teacher in Parliament Hill Girls’ ...

In 1984-85 miners across the country took part in industrial action to try and prevent the closures of mining pits deemed uneconomic by the government. Bolsover has a rich mining heritage in the town ...

In this book about the miners' strike of 1984, telling a story he describes as 'a fiction, based on a fact', Peace ranges beyond the history we know - the television images of police and pickets ...

Jonathan Francis, artistic director at Chesterfield Studios, has created The Northern Requiem which will be delivered by an ...

A strike last month on a merchant ship in the Black Sea was almost certainly the result of a bungled Russian bomber attack using outdated ammunition, according to the UK Ministry of Defence.