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6 results found for '"Ollerton"' in Keywords.
Scargill colliery visit after comments on Solidarity (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference; Interview
Report on NUM leader Arthur Scargill’s visit to Ollerton Colliery in Nottinghamshire prior to wages talks with the NCB, after his comments opposing Polish trade union Solidarity. Scargill talks to a...
Miners strike - Funeral of David Jones, first miner to die on picket lines (1984)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the funeral of 23 year-old David Jones, the first miner to die on the picket lines in 1984. With comment from Arthur Scargill, leader of the National Union of Mineworkers; Jack Taylor, leader of...
Miners strike - Len Murray on picket line violence (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Kevin Heathorn interviews Len Murray, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), about picket line violence, following the death of a miner last night (presumably 23 year-old flying picket David...
Miners strike - Eyewitness account of picket line violence (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male eyewitness on the coal miners’ picket line action in Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, where miner David Jones died. Speaker describes how bottles, sticks, bricks and stones were thrown. He saw...
Three more pits to close (1994)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Mychaela(?) Stevenson(?) reports on the news that three more coal pits are to be closed. National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) branch treasurer Jim Sawyer says the average age of workers at Ellington in...
Robin Cook on pit closures (1994)
- Genre
- Interview
Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary, Robin Cook condemns the closure of a further three coal mines. He says the pits closed this week are profitable but the Government have created a market that does not...