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ITV 70: Around the Regions

S1 E302025

Miners' Strike at 40

Episode Synopsis

A defining news story of the 1980s saw nearly 23,000 coal miners in the North East walk out on strike in what became one of the biggest industrial actions in British history. Forty years on, Tyne Tees reported on the strike and the scars left by it.

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