Many of them are ex-miners, who have told the BBC how they feel about returning to the picket line more than 40 years after the strike of 1984-85. "It will be over in a week, is what they used to say, ...
This bulletin included a report on the closure of the Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station in which footage of the violent confrontation at Orgreave during the miners’ strike of 1984 was used.  A viewer ...