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Miners strike - 30 years on: Solidarity from across the seas
Christmas 1984 was a tough time for striking miners. LUKE JAMES talks to a mining family about the support - and management intimidation - they received
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Sarah Jones was just four months old when a Christmas postcard addressed to her dropped through the letterbox of her parent's home in December 1984.
Sent in solidarity by a family living in the Belgium industrial town of Hasselt, its cartoon cover shows two miners marching together through a snow storm.
On the reverse is a typed message for miners and their families in English and Flemish.
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