Government announces formal start of official Orgreave inquiry to bring justice for miners

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The government has announced the formal start of the promised official inquiry into the violent policing at the Orgreave coking plant during the 1984-85 miners’ strike and the discredited prosecutions of 95 men that followed.

Chaired by Pete Wilcox, the bishop of Sheffield, the inquiry was announced in July by the then home secretary, Yvette Cooper. The government has since worked on appointing an expert panel to consider the evidence.