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Paul Hutcheon

SNP Green Government urged to back compensation for miners as pardon bill wins Holyrood support

Scottish Ministers are under pressure to back a compensation scheme for miners convicted during the bitter strike in the 1980s.

Campaigners want financial redress to be included in a pardon Bill which cleared its first parliamentary hurdle today.

Labour MSP Richard Leonard said: “Society owes these miners and their families a debt.”

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