Miners’ strike – 30 years have passed since the 1984 pit crisis

Thirty years ago today, miners at the Cortonwood seminar in Yorkshire came out in protest with the intention of closing the hole. Sign up for Snowmail, a daily preview that appears on Channel 4 News, by sending it directly to your inbox, here: http://mailing.channel4.com/public/snowmail/remotebox.jsp

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