POLICE were instructed to use “as much force as possible” against pickets at the Battle of Orgreave, according to damning testimony yesterday from an officer who was there. The unnamed Merseyside ...

PEOPLE from all over Britain attended the Agitate, Organise, Resist conference staged by the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC) at the weekend. The meeting brought together justice activists ...

Today will be largely dry and cloudy throughout with limited bright spells. There will be a gentle southerly breeze. Tonight Tonight will continue to be cloudy throughout with gentle southerly ...

Tonight will have mostly cloudy skies and just the odd clear break in places. Mainly dry but there may be the odd spot of light rain and drizzle locally. Saturday Tomorrow will have a cloudy start ...

Durham County Council has urged the government to hold a public inquiry into the Battle of Orgreave, when striking miners and police violently clashed in 1984. Hundreds of picketers and police ...

Ken Capstick, who has died at 83, was at the side of Arthur Scargill during the Yorkshire coalfield strikes of the 1970s and 1980s, culminating in the violent picketing outside the Orgreave coking ...

For two hundred years, Britain needed coal. The men who braved dreadful danger to hew it out of rocks miles underground were ...

Rayner’s working class roots are well documented. You'd have thought she, as much than anyone, would have had the guts to explain everything to the survivors and the families of the bereaved ...