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Campaigners from the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign on College Green, London in 2016
THE government faced fresh demands today for an independent review of unreleased police files related to the attack on striking miners at Orgreave in 1984.
The Commons home affairs select committee has discovered that South Yorkshire Police have identified almost 800 files related to the so-called Battle of Orgreave, committee chair Yvette Cooper told Home Secretary Amber Rudd in a letter.
Campaigners welcomed the committee’s hard work, but called for the release of all files relating to Orgreave, whether held by South Yorkshire or other forces.
The Home Secretary’s recent letter suggests the Labour government may finally deliver on its nine-year manifesto commitment, writes KATE FLANNERY, but we must move quickly: as recently as 2024 Northumbria police destroyed miners’ strike documents
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped