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  • Last updated: 15 Apr 2009 08:50

    Miners strike - an alternative view

    SCOTLAND'S only Conservative Party MP, David Mundell, talks to the Chronicle about the impact the Miner's Strike had on communities as part of our look back on that...

  • Last updated: 15 Apr 2009 12:48

    25 Years since the Miners" Strike

    Sandra Osborne MP looks back

  • Last updated: 18 Dec 2008 15:18

    THE LEGACY OF THE MINERS' STRIKE

    Despite the strong local support, the marches, the rallies, the pickets, the soup kitchens and the sit-ins, the miners strike ended one year after it began. It led to the dismantling...

  • Last updated: 18 Dec 2008 15:19

    THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LINE - The Police's Story

    DESPITE the friendships which were made during the year, there were many that were destroyed.

  • Last updated: 18 Dec 2008 15:20

    COMING OUT FIGHTING - The women who helped shape the Miner's Strike

    THE true mark of a person emerges in a time of great struggle; they can find the courage to walk a terrifying path, the strength to do what needs to be done and the integrity...

  • Last updated: 18 Dec 2008 15:25

    MINERS STRIKE REMEMBERED

    AS Christmas approached additional pressures were soon put upon striking families. Rent arrears, although a concern, had been alleviated by Strathclyde Regional Council who vowed...

  • Last updated: 18 Dec 2008 15:26

    READY FOR A BATTLE - THE MINERS STRIKE PART TWO

    Friday March 9, 1984 unleashed the most turbulent, bitter and controversial labour dispute the area had seen since the war.

  • Last updated: 18 Dec 2008 15:29

    THE MINERS' STRIKE REMEMBERED

    DEEP mining wasn"t just a job - it was a way of life; a bond, as rich as the mountains of black gold that lay firmly beneath the earth, that intrinsically linked nearly every...

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  • Features

  • Last updated: 18th December, 2008 03:05pm

    Trial and Terror

    (1)

    Authorities bribe convicted man with freedom to execute his comrades

  • Published: 24 Nov 2008 09:30

    Local author tells history of Sorn

    Dane Love's new book looks at the rich past of Sorn village.

  • Last updated: 23 Oct 2008 13:00

    In memory of the lost

    A series of features first run in the Chronicle in September 2000 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Knockshinnoch disaster

  • Last updated: 23 Oct 2008 12:39

    Youngsters Hear of Horrors

    Part of the 50th anniversary feature on the Knockshinnoch disaster in the Chronicle in September 2000

  • Last updated: 23 Oct 2008 12:58

    The man who gave more than first aid

    Part of the 50th anniversary feature on the Knockshinnoch disaster run by the Chronicle in September 2000.

  • Last updated: 23 Oct 2008 12:33

    Art Students Design Lasting Memorial

    Part of the special 50th anniversary feature on the Knockshinnoch disaster run by the Chronicle in September 2000.

  • Last updated: 23 Oct 2008 12:20

    Silent pithead spelled disaster

    Part of the Knockshinnoch 50th Anniversary feature run by the Chronicle in September 2000.

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