Walk the immaculate streets of the Waverley estate in South Yorkshire and you could, almost, be in any new-build British housing development. With neat brick houses, solar-panelled roofs and gleaming cars on driveways, everything looks modern and well-maintained. On a weekday lunchtime, the only noise is the low growl of construction: more homes being built on the 740-acre site.
Unions shrieked that the Government s strike legislation was draconian. But the rail bosses it was designed to help are too lily-livered to implement it despite this week s walkout chaos
National Union of Mineworkers officers Keith Brookes and Martin Harvey were tasked by boss Arthur Scargill with filming pickets, including the Battle of Orgreave
Channel 4’s three-part series also includes miners speaking on camera for the first time after suffering physical and mental scars at the Battle of Orgreave during the 1984 Miners’ Strike