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Bishop of Sheffield to chair Orgreave inquiry

Bishop of Sheffield to chair Orgreave inquiry

Monday, July 21, 2025
THE Bishop of Sheffield, Dr Pete Wilcox, is to chair a statutory inquiry into the violence at the coking plant at Orgreave, Rotherham, in 1984, when 6000 police officers, many on horseback, confronted a protest of striking miners who had responded...