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So after 40 years we're finally getting an inquiry into Orgreave. This is a testament to the tireless work of campaigners. Hopefully it can avoid the glacial pace of the Undercover Policing Inquiry and some of the people brutalised by the police will still be alive when it reports […]

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Battle of Orgreave inquiry confirmed – justice after 40 years? It’s official – a national inquiry into the infamous Battle of Orgreave will finally go ahead.After more than 40 years of unanswered questions and decades of campaigning, the government has confirmed that an independent public inquiry will be held into what happened at Orgreave coking plant on 18...

The government have confirmed an Inquiry into the Battle of Orgreave will take place...

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UK to hold inquiry into miners strike 'Battle of Orgreave' four decades on - Sight Magazine Britain said it would hold an inquiry into the "Battle of Orgreave", a violent confrontation between police and striking coal miners in 1984.

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#NorthumbriaPolice —I'd suggest that, knowing the long-held interest in the #battleoforgreave, yr #ChiefConstableNorthumbria has committed contempt of Court, or Parliament, or something.

The one thing this doesn't do is to build confidence in #NorthumbriaPolice as a body which acts within the Law.

#PhotoSky #Yorkshire #SouthYorkshire #OrgreaveJustice #BattleofOrgreave

(I understand that some people object to it being called a battle, as the violence the police planned and gleefully unleashed on the miners was more akin to a bloodletting. But the #BattleOfOrgreave is what it has come to be known as, so I use that term with acknowledgement that it is problematic.)

#OTD 1984 - The #BattleOfOrgreave, South Yorkshire.

The people, families and communities who suffered at the hands of the police, media and Tory govt need an #OrgreaveInquiry, now. 41 years is too long. Some have already died without seeing justice done.

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