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Government urged to meet election pledge to ‘uncover the truth’ of Orgreave attack
Police in anti-riot gear escorting picketers away from their position near the Orgreave Coking Plant near Rotherham, June 18, 1984
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LABOUR was urged to fulfil its election pledge to “uncover the truth” about the infamous 1984 police attack on striking miners at Orgreave at the David Jones-Joe Green Memorial Lecture on Saturday.

Jones, 24 and Green, 55, were Yorkshire miners killed on picket lines during the 1984-5 miners’ strike against pit closures.

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