#OnThisDay 1984. Police intercept and arrest 292 miners travelling to Ravenscraig to picket.

The miners, from Fyfe, disembarked, sat down and linked arms blocking the A80 before police arrested the men with obstruction.
“I believe that if public confidence is to be restored the Labour controlled regional council must examine the current methods of policing.”

#OnThisDay 1984. Don Henderson, chairman of the Scottish Labour Party, called the police ‘industrial bouncers’
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