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Scottish sex work strategy ‘a mess’ as charity ditched after ‘occult’ claim

Scottish government drops proposed partnership with charity after backlash from violence against women sector

The Guardian - UK

Sex workers hit out at Ash Regan's criminalisation plans

SEX workers have hit out at Ash Regan’s bid to make it illegal to pay for sex in Scotland.

The National (Scotland)

Powering down: end times for the UK’s final coal-fired station

At Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, the turbines will stop spinning for good this year as the UK meets its pledge to ban coal use. We meet staff proud of the site’s 56-year history

The Guardian - UK

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For years, I suspected MI5 interfered in the miners’ strike. The truth was even more shocking than I thought

A document buried in the National Archives reveals how the security service abused its power to help the government win, says journalist and author Mark Hollingsworth

The Guardian - UK

Why did the miners strike in 1984? 40th anniversary of historic industrial action

It’s been 40 years since miners around the UK went on strike in what has become known as a momentous part of British history

Evening Standard

Ronnie Campbell obituary

Miner turned Labour MP known for his uncompromising principles and championing his Blyth Valley constituency

The Guardian - UK

Forty years on from the miners’ strike, unions are flexing their muscles

While numbers may not have fully recovered the climate is now in very much in trade unions’ favour

The Guardian - UK

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‘They didn’t understand us at all’: why the miners’ strike still captivates Britain, 40 years on

Artists, writers and film-makers have long been inspired by the stories – and myths – of the 1984-5 strike. But how do those most affected by its legacy feel about the portrayals?

The Guardian - UK

Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain review – the sadness and resentment still simmer

This documentary series to mark 40 years since the strikes is a vivid depiction of people’s lives and identities being shattered. It’s full of new interviews, and powerful emotions

The Guardian - UK

Three-day week, 50 years on: lessons from a previous Conservative government struggling with a cost of living crisis

Midwinter. War in the Middle East. Energy crisis. Rising prices borne disproportionately by low-wage workers, particularly in a public sector squeezed by a “Tories in turmoil” UK government.

The Conversation

Fears For Miners On Second Day Of S.Africa Underground Protest

Frantic families waited at the surface Tuesday for news of more than 2,000 platinum miners who have taken over two shafts in one of South Africa's biggest mine protests in years.

International Business Times

South African ‘hostage’ miners emerge from underground amid union dispute

Rival unions claim the miners were either held hostage or protesting.

Al Jazeera

109 miners escape from gold mine in South Africa but others continue union standoff, official says

A company official says more than 100 miners have escaped from a gold mine in South Africa after being held underground for three days by fellow employees in a union dispute

The Independent UK

Police say miners from a rival union are holding hundreds of colleagues underground in South Africa

Police in South Africa say a group of gold miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding hundreds of colleagues underground for the second day over a union dispute

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Tyrone O’Sullivan obituary

Miners’ leader who saved the colliery where he worked from closure by engineering a buyout

Nottingham Post

Funeral details confirmed for councillor described as ‘Mr Mansfield’ who died on Chirstmas Eve

Tributes poured in following his death and now colleagues have remembered him again during the most recent full council meeting since his passing

Wales Online

'Today is not like the 1980s, Rishi Sunak's bid to break the unions is wrong and will fail': Shipton

Rishi Sunak’s bid to introduce new anti-union laws is doomed to failure, argues Political editor-at-large Martin Shipton

The Guardian - UK

Jim Ford obituary

Other lives: Coal miner in Shropshire who supported his colleagues through the strike of 1984-85

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Daily Mirror

Arthur Scargill back on the picket line outside coal mining museum to support strikers

The former president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) stood with striking staff locked in a pay dispute with the National Coal Mining Museum for England

Manchester Evening News

'We just wanted to carry on mining': What the strike which changed Britain meant for our miners - and what it says about the 'summer of discontent'

"We weren't trying to take over the country, we just wanted to carry on mining, to protect our jobs and communities"

Daily Mirror

Striking miners feared police were infiltrating them in real-life Sherwood plot

Miners have long suspected that they were targeted and they hope the long awaited probe will reveal the truth of what the police did during the bitter 1984-85 strike

The Conversation

UK strikes: six milestones in the history of industrial action in Britain

Holidaymakers and commuters are expecting significant disruption this summer following a recent surge in strike action in the UK and Europe. UK train drivers are the latest group to consider striking in what could be the first national rail strike in more than 25 years

The Guardian - UK

‘It was refreshing to see what Sherwood did’: how the BBC’s acclaimed miners’ strike drama went down in the real pit villages

In the Nottingham streets where the serial is set, the struggle now is to control the narrative of a fiercely contested history

The Guardian - UK

Sherwood has exposed undercover policing. Now let’s hear the stories of victims like me

The TV series casts a welcome spotlight on the spy cops scandal, but the real-life abuse is still unexplored, says Alison, a founder member of Police Spies Out of Lives

The Guardian - UK

I wrote Sherwood as a warning. When communities are divided, the pain endures

Tensions from miners’ strike are echoed in Brexit, levelling up and today’s rail disputes. We can’t let bonds be torn apart, says playwright and screenwriter James Graham

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