The anniversary has fallen in the day when the chairman of British Coal, Neil Clarke, announced that more pits will close once the industry is privatised and the collieries have to survive in a fiercely competitive market. Interview with Mark Jones whose son David Jones was killed while picketing. Interview with Henry Richardson of the Nottinghamshire NUM who said that Arthur Scargill had done much to quieten things down on the day Jones was killed at Ollerton. Library interview with Arthur Scargill from 1984 about the death of David Jones. Interview with David Prendergast of the UDM who said that the subsequent problems which the mining industry has faced were a result of Scargill's stupidity and that the strike became a battle with no winners. Interview with former miner Jimmy Lees who talked about life after the end of the strike. Library shots of Ollerton Colliery following its closure this year and shots of picket line violence in 1984. Shot of Mark Jones tending his son's grave. Further library shots of police clashing with miners (including at Orgreave in Yorkshire which were not shot by Central News). Library extract from a speech made by Arthur Scargill in Hyde Park in 1992.
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