The government has announced it is launching a statutory inquiry into the violent policing at Orgreave during the infamous miner’s strike of 1984. Dubbed the ‘Battle of Orgreave’ by historians, the ...

A national inquiry will be held into one of the most violent days of the year-long miners' strike in the 1980s, the government has announced. The inquiry would look into the clashes between police and ...

The UK’s home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has announced a full inquiry into the Battle of Orgreave, a large, violent clash between the National Union of Mineworkers and South Yorkshire police that took ...

Tuesday marks the 40 th anniversary of a grim day in U.K. history: the Battle of Orgreave when police clashed with striking workers at a coking plant, leaving more 100 people injured. Those shocking ...

LONDON — The British government said Monday that it will hold a public inquiry into the “Battle of Orgreave,” a violent confrontation between police and striking coal miners that became a defining ...

A new public inquiry will "uncover the truth" behind the so-called "Battle of Orgreave", a bloody fight between striking miners and police officers in the 1980s. One hundred and twenty people were ...

A police force is investigating itself over the destruction of documents related to the miners' strike. Information about the so-called Battle of Orgreave was said to be among two boxes disposed of by ...