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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Tom Pettifor

Striking miners feared police were infiltrating them in real-life Sherwood plot

Former striking miners say they were ­targeted by spy cops...just like characters in the BBC hit Sherwood.

It is now widely known that undercover officers were sent to infiltrate campaign groups, sometimes deceiving women into intimate relationships and even fathering children with them.

No solid evidence that they wormed their way into mining communities has so far beem found.

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