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Daily Record
Daily Record
Politics
Paul Hutcheon

Scottish Government urged to pay financial compensation to striking miners through justice underspend

SNP ministers have been called on to use an underspend to pay compensation to miners wronged during the bitter strike of the 1980s.

Labour MSP Richard Leonard believes the cash should be used to back up a pardon that has already been promised.

The strike, which lasted between 1984 and 1985, saw the miners go head-to-head against a Thatcher Government determined to close pits.

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