(16 Mar 2014, 4:43 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote The Sun will take every opportunity they can to have a pop at Scargill.

There was a piece of graffiti for years, slagging him off, on a roadsign on the roundabout at the bottom of Peterlee, heading towards Horden/Blackhall.
It was only removed (or the sign replaced), within the last 10-15years.

I've never ever bought a copy of the sun, and never will. Whatever people may think of Scargill now, 30 years on, he was proven to be right with regards to the Thatcher's real plans.

The real legacy of the strike though was the solidarity shown across communities. Standing together will always make you stronger and that's true to this very day. Unions are still winning landmark disputes, despite the best efforts of the Governments (and I include Labour in that), with their anti-union laws.

Fancy a country where it's illegal to show solidarity to a fellow worker...