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Showing items 601 - 700 of 767. Document type: Press.
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85 Jan 23 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Coal board presses for talks as Thatcher and Kinnock clash on pit strike” [negotiations break down] |
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85 Jan 25 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher demands straight answer on pit closures” [MT insists on Scargill’s surrender] |
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85 Jan 26 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NUM and coal board agree on “talks about talks”” [talks to continue] |
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85 Jan 28 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “The human cost of the coal strike” [Prentice Article] |
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85 Jan 29 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Remembering those who dug on” [Leader article] |
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85 Jan 31 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NUM initiative not enough says coal board” [talks look set to collapse] |
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85 Feb 2 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Pit output “higher than before strike”; Cool response to NUM initiatives” [all 52 midland collieries back to work; NCM disdainful of initiatives] |
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85 Feb 2 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher plea to ministers” [MT insists government will not back down; asks miners to return to work] |
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85 Feb 5 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Board dashes NUM hopes of quick start to peace talks” [possibility of negotiations to resume] |
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85 Feb 6 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Miners’ leaders call emergency talks” [NCB states no negotiations are planned; NUM leaders have emergency session] |
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85 Feb 8 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NACODS agreement not in jeopardy” [MT insists NACODS/NCB agreement not at risk] |
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85 Feb 11 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Pit leaders accused of return to Luddism” [stron criticism of Scargill by Conservative chairman] |
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85 Mar 13 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Welsh pickets defy court order” [strikers ignore limitations of pickets to six by High Court] |
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85 Feb 14 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Pit strike “has cost CEGB £1.8 bn”” [Electricity board lost 1.8 billion due to strike] |
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85 Feb 16 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Striking miners join police” [Some strikers have trained as police officers] |
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85 Feb 16 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Coal talks collapse in angry mood” [NUM rejects plan adopted by TUC] |
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85 Feb 16 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Will they ever talk?” [Leader article] |
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85 Feb 19 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher and TUC meet over 'gap'” [NCB insists there is a large gap in negotiations] |
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85 Feb 20 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Coal dispute cuts growth rate to 2.5 percent” [strike reduces growth by 1.1 percent] |
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85 Feb 20 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Walker in late night pit talks with TUC” [Government/TUC talks re-open] |
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85 Feb 21 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “End Game” [Leader article] |
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85 Feb 22 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Walker rules out talks as miners vote to strike on” [miners reject deal] |
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85 Feb 23 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Coal board expects a mass return to pits on Monday” [large returns to pits] |
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85 Feb 25 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Coal board prodict the turning point in strike this week” [NCB confident half of miners will be in work within the week] |
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85 Feb 26 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Pit strike is abandoned by a record 3,807 men” [large return of miners to work] |
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85 Feb 26 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Miners return in mood of despair” [mass return to work] |
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85 Feb 27 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Miners strike near to collapse in militant areas” [little prospect of resumption of negotiations; strike near collapse] |
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85 Feb 28 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill’s gift to Thatcher” Ronald Butt article] |
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85 Mar 1 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NUM delegates face calls for return without deal” [strike could end without agreement] |
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85 Mar 2 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Miners set for big march-back next week” [massive return to coalfields predicted] |
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85 Mar 4 Mo | Press | ★★★★ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Strike ends but Scargill defiant” [NUM vote to end strike without agreement] |
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85 Mar 4 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Where Arthur doesn’t box clever” [Atkinson article] |
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85 Mar 4 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Walker says no gloating” [Energy Secretary rejects talk of victory] |
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85 Mar 5 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Kinnock opposes amnesty” [Kinnock rejects amnesty for convicted strikers] |
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85 Mar 5 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Battle to continue in Scotland and Kent” [miners in Scotland and Kent carry on strike] |
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85 Mar 5 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Why pit peace means danger” [Leader article] |
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85 Mar 6 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill: the fighter who led from the front” [David Felton article] |
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85 Mar 6 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Coal board says 85 percent of miners are back on first day of return to work” [85 percent of miners back to work; flying pickets remain in Wales and Yorkshire over amnesty] |
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85 Mar 7 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Day of reckoning for returned pitmen accused of strike offences” [miners interviewed about offences that could lead to dismissal] |
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85 Mar 7 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Building on victory” [Leader article] |
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85 Mar 9 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Why moderate coal field blew gaping hole in strike” [Nottinghamshire defiance severely harmed strike] |
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85 Mar 12 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Case by Case examination by NCB” [Walker states NCB will look at individual cases dismissal] |
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85 Mar 14 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scottish dismissals “must stand”” [Scottish NCB state no amnesty for strikers dismissed] |
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85 Mar 19 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Rebels defy NUM vote on 50p levy” [Nottinghamshire miners vote against funding dismissed miners] |
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85 Mar 20 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Lawson puts the final cost at £2,500m” [Chancellor puts costs of strike to public spending of 2.5 billion] |
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85 Mar 27 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “50p pit levy is rejected in ballot” [miners vote against levy; taken as criticism of union leadership] |
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85 Mar 16 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Time to heal the wounds” [Leader article] |
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85 Mar 29 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NCB reveals secret plan that kept coal moving during miners’ strike” [secret planning to move coal supplies revealed] |
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84 Jan 11 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Scargill slams Sun poll on pits ballot” [criticises Sun for conducting put ballot over overtime ban] |
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84 Feb 11 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Scargill is booed by his pit men” [booed over overtime ban] |
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84 Feb 4 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill and Murray in clash on pay” [Scargill criticises Murray] |
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84 Feb 1 We | Press | ★★☆☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Pit ban haults Scargill’s trip” [trip cancelled due to repairs for pit] |
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84 Apr 4 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Red lies about me by angry Scargill” [Scargill challenged Russian newspaper statements] |
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84 Apr 22 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (News of the World) | Coal: “Scargill is blasted by coal chief” [Macgregor accuses Scargill of waging “private war”] |
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84 Apr 23 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “20 things you didn't know about Scargill” [Sun special on leader] |
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84 May 11 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill dispute halts paper” [editions of Daily Expressed not published due to inter-union dispute] |
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84 May 13 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Punch up at pit rally” [arrests made at rally] |
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84 May 20 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Scargill seeks foreign support” [Scargill meets international union representatives] |
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84 May 16 We | Press | ★☆☆☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Happiness is a hamlet called Scargill” [report on town called Scargill] |
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84 Jun 21 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Kinnock blasts Scargill” [Kinnock criticises Scargill] |
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83 Jul 5 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Pit leaders seek backing for big pay increase” [miners’ leaders claim pay rise] |
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84 Jul 1 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (News of the World) | Coal: “Exclusive: Arthur Scargill puts his case” [“If the miners lose, you will all suffer”] |
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84 Jul 14 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Lies they tell about Scargill” [Union responds to Scargill rumours] |
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84 Jul 27 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “We'll tighten the Knot, says Scargill” [miners reject peace offer] |
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84 Aug 2 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (News of the World) | Coal: “Scargill talks with Kinnock” [Scargill meets Kinnock at Commons] |
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84 Jul 9 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Is Arthur cracking up” [Ian MacGregor said he is worried about Scargill’s mental health] |
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84 Oct 4 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Editor of Express expelled over writ” [Express editor has credentials withdrawn] |
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84 Nov 4 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (News of the World) | Coal: “Scargill in “six hour talk with Libyans”” [claim Scargill met Gaddafi official] |
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84 Oct 22 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Why I threw tins at Arthur, by cats woman” [protestor explains why she threw cat tins at Scargill] |
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84 Oct 13 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Scargill wrecks it” [Scargill turns down peace deal] |
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84 Oct 26 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Why I took swipe at Scargill” [Trade Unionist explains “why he tried to thump miners’ leader on the nose”] |
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84 Nov 20 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill only wants conflict, Walker says” [Scargill does not care about the coal industry, says Walker] |
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84 Nov 29 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “20 odd sayings of Scargill” [former union leader convinced Scargill part of communist conspiracy] |
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84 Nov 27 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Scargill “the tyrant who hates democracy ”” [Thatcher and Brittan link Scargill with terrorists] |
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84 Dec 1 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Scargill: we are deeply shocked” [Scargill shocked over killing of taxi driver; dissociates union with violence] |
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84 Dec 3 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Scargill’s crisis fight” [split in NUM over defying the law] |
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85 Jan 2 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Arthur is my man of the year” [writer calls Scargill man of the year for “driving headlong up a blind alley”] |
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84 Dec 27 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill raises spectre of further year’s strike” [Scargill threatens strike untill Christmas 1985] |
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85 Jan 16 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill “inciting violence”” [Scargill criticised by man whose son is in jail] |
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85 Jan 15 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Working miner tells of attack” [working miner speaks of vandalism] |
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85 Jan 15 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill to face new legal action” [Scargill accused of conspiracy to assault and intimidate working miners] |
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85 Jan 10 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Scargill’s shock letter” [Scargill writes letter to father of imprisoned miner praising his actions] |
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85 Jan 8 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “The amazing family trees of Arthur and Maggie” [Scargill descended from nobility, Thatcher from labourers] |
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85 Jan 24 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Shaky Scargill in treble climbdown” [Scargill changing plans after Nottingham revolt] |
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85 Jan 21 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Scargill makes a millon” [increase in value of NUM overseas funds] |
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85 Jan 19 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Strike entering final stage, says Scargill” [Scargill tells miners that strike near decisive stage] |
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85 Feb 2 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “NUM hints at “no deal”return ” [Scargill hints of possibility of end without deal] |
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85 Jan 31 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Scargill is “most hated” man alive” [Scargill wins poll of most hated man, ahead of Gaddafi] |
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85 Jan 27 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | Coal: “Kinnock “won't be scapegoat” for pits defeat” [Kinnock claims he will not be blamed by far-left in Labour for miners’ defeat] |
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85 Jan 25 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Maggie moves in for the kill” [“We want Scargill’s guarantee in writing”] |
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85 Feb 17 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (News of the World) | Coal: “Scargill: the sooner it's ended the better” [NCB refusing to negotiate with NUM] |
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85 Feb 11 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Scargill in “no sell-out ” ” vow [Scargill insists he will not sign an agreement involving pit closures] |
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85 Feb 7 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Left “ready to ditch Scargill”” [Ottey predicts far left in NUM ready to remove Scargill] |
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85 Feb 26 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Man fined 25 for Scargill bearhug” [man fined for grabbing Scargill] |
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85 Feb 17 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | Coal: “Scargill bid to open talks as NCB dig in” [Scargill attempts to re-open talks] |
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85 Mar 4 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “New bid to topple Arthur” [moderate pitmen plan to force out Scargill] |
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85 Mar 4 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Lest we forget” [Sun story on strike violence] |
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85 Mar 4 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Coal: “Face of defeat” [Scargill caves in] |
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85 Mar 2 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Fight will go if strike ends, Scargill says” [Scargill pledges strike will go on] |
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85 Mar 1 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | Coal: “Scargill’s union link with East gets closer” [Scargill seeks international miner organisation] |
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