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Last Updated: Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 14:57 GMT 15:57 UK
pit head and miners
The miners' darkest year
Twenty years ago, Britain's miners embarked on a strike over pit closures. In the year-long struggle that ensued, the biggest losers were ordinary miners.

Hurt and pain of the Coal War
BBC Wales' political editor on the raw emotions he found still running in the valleys, 20 years after the miners' strike.
Miners' strike was 'battle of ideas'
BBC Scotland correspondent Colin Blane reflects on the turbulent times he saw in the Scottish coalfield.
1984: I WAS THERE

'I was called a scab and my family were threatened'

'I was a flying picket'
Woman supporter
Policing the pickets
Colliery bandsman

Lord Peter Walker and Kim Howells Was the strike inevitable?
Former energy secretary, Peter Walker, and Kim Howells, ex-NUM official now a Labour minister, discuss.

Piste not pits
What has happened to Yorkshire's economy since the mines shut?
Going underground
1,000 metres down with some of Britain's remaining miners
Watch the pits close
Animated map of how the UK's coal mines disappeared

ECONOMIC IMPACT

The trade unions' long decline
BBC News Online explores whether the miners' strike caused the demise of the trade union movement.
PROFILES

Arthur Scargill The legacy of 'King Arthur'
NUM leader Arthur Scargill's determination to dig in for a long fight elevated the miners' strike into a political struggle.

VIDEO AND AUDIO NEWS
VIDEO CHOICE
Police confronting striking miners in south Yorkshire, 1984 Archive BBC reports of the miners' strike, 20 years on

Can the UK coal industry survive?
UK Coal sees loss crumble to £1m
Burning desire remains for coal
FROM WALES
A wife's story
A policeman's lot

Thatcher and the 'enemies within'
Iron Lady versus union baron
Ian MacGregor: Coal warrior
FROM SCOTLAND
Scottish miners reflect
No ordinary dispute

Miner's helmets1984: Miners strike over pit closures
Long battle looming over job loss plans
Have Your Say
Your memories of the 1984 miners' strike
Twenty years on from the miners' strike, does coal production in the UK have a future? The future of coal
Can the UK's coal industry compete with cleaner fuels?
Return to 1984
Miners' strike as it happened - in archive audio and pictures


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