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South Yorkshire

June 2024

  • Miners running from mounted police at Orgreave

    Campaigners rally on Battle of Orgreave anniversary as Labour promises inquiry

    Sheffield demonstration comes 40 years after notorious police action against striking miners

December 2023

  • An upturned car at a roadside

    Rise in dashcam submissions leads to more dangerous drivers being caught

  • A frosted birch tree, Blacka Moor, South Yorkshire

    Country diary
    Country diary: Frost covers anything that can support its feathery weight

June 1984

  • Mounted police charge through picket lines, in what became known as the Battle of Orgreave, June 1984.

    From the Guardian archive
    Black day for pit strike violence

    19 June 1984: The Orgreave coking plant near Rotherham, Yorkshire, witnessed some of the most violent clashes of the miners’ industrial dispute. See how the Guardian reported the events
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