Orgreave: More than 100 people were injured
Kate Proctor31 October 2016
Campaigners awaiting a government decision on whether it will launch an inquiry into the 1984 Battle of Orgreave have urged the Home Secretary to “stop being frozen in the past”.
The clash between South Yorkshire police and pickets at the Orgreave coke works led to the arrest of 95 miners and left more than 100 people injured.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd is due to tell the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign if there will be a full public inquiry, a Hillsborough-style panel hearing or if the case will be dropped.
Campaign chair Barbara Jackson said: “We want her to be her own person… and to stop being frozen in the past.”
Last month, Tory grandee Lord Tebbit described the Orgreave miners as “a bunch of hoodlums”.
