5:54pm Wednesday 4th March 2009
It is 25 years since the beginning of the miners' strike, one of the longest and bitterest strikes in British history.
On March 5, 1984, miners at Cortonwood, in South Yorkshire, voted to walk out over a decision to close their pit.
Within a week, most of Britain's 200,000 miners were on strike, including 23,000 in the Northumberland and Durham coalfields and Britain witnessed some of the most violent picketlines in its history.
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