ORGREAVE Truth and Justice campaigners welcomed the government’s decision to launch an inquiry into the events of 42 years ago at Saturday’s march and rally in Sheffield, an annual event marking the most violent day in the year-long miners’ strike of 1984-5.The inquiry will investigate the involvement of the Conservative government and police conduct at the South Yorkshire colliery and coking plant on June 18 1984, when 6,000 police officers from forces across the country charged on horseback at 8,000 striking miners and attacked the crowd with truncheons.

ORGREAVE Truth and Justice campaigners welcomed the government’s decision to launch an inquiry into the events of 42 years ago at Saturday’s march and rally in Sheffield, an annual event marking the most violent day in the year-long miners’ strike of 1984-5.

The inquiry will investigate the involvement of the Conservative government and police conduct at the South Yorkshire colliery and coking plant on June 18 1984, when 6,000 police officers from forces across the country charged on horseback at 8,000 striking miners and attacked the crowd with truncheons.

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