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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Stephen White

Arthur Scargill back on the picket line outside coal mining museum to support strikers

Union firebrand Arthur Scargill has been back on the picket line...this time outside a coal mining museum.

The former president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) stood with striking staff locked in a pay dispute with the National Coal Mining Museum for England.

Mr Scargill, who was arrested at the Orgreave pit in South Yorkshire in 1984 at the height of the miners’ strike, was president of the NUM for 20 years.

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