Calls for a public inquiry into the year-long miners’ strike are being stepped up as communities across the country gear up to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the start of the most bitter industrial conflict in living memory.

Former miners’ leader Arthur Scargill has been awarded £13,000 in damages in the UK after he sued a trust fund of the union he led for 20 years.

Russell Brand has called another grandparent on a radio show, sending up the lewd calls he made to 'Fawlty Towers' actor Andrew Sachs.

THINKING of the behaviour of the Cork train drivers this week brought Rudyard Kipling to mind. It was he who first coined the term “power without responsibility”.

Former National Union of Mineworkers president Arthur Scargill tonight insisted he regretted nothing about the 1984 strike and insisted that his union did not lose.