The pictures will be forever ingrained on our minds. They were so powerful that in 1984 the late Jo Richardson MP held up one of them in front of the Labour Party Conference, and the World’s media. It showed a mounted policeman, baton raised, charging a woman whose only defence was to raise her arm […]
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New BBC film explores doctored police statements at Orgreave
Oct 26th, 2012 by Newsdesk.One of the best things about BBC iPlayer is that it has made national access to regional TV so much easier. The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire edition of the BBC’s Inside Out aired this fascinating documentary on the Battle of Orgreave the other day, exploring new evidence on the doctoring of police statements. Most of all, […]
