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| Battle of Orgreave inquiry ruled out | |
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| There will be no inquiry into the notorious events at the so-called "Battle of Orgreave", Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced. | |
| Thousands of miners and police clashed at the Yorkshire coking site in 1984. | |
| Campaigners said officers led by South Yorkshire Police were heavy-handed and manufactured statements. | |
| However, Mrs Rudd said she did not believe there was "sufficient basis... to instigate either a statutory inquiry or an independent review". | |
| For live updates and more from across South Yorkshire | |
| What was the 'Battle of Orgreave'? | |
| In a written statement, Mrs Rudd said: "Despite the forceful accounts and arguments provided by the campaigners and former miners who were present that day about the effect that these events have had on them, ultimately there were no deaths or wrongful convictions." | |
| Momentum for an Orgreave inquiry escalated following the conclusion of the two-year Hillsborough inquests, which provided a scathing assessment of the under-fire South Yorkshire Police force's behaviour. | |
| The statement added: "The campaigners say that had the consequences of the events at Orgreave been addressed properly at the time, the tragic events at Hillsborough would never have happened five years later. | |
| "That is not a conclusion which I believe can be reached with any certainty." |