UNION leaders have paid tribute to two miners who were killed during the 1984-5 miners’ strike at a memorial held in their name.

The annual Dave Jones and Joe Green memorial lecture took place on Saturday at the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) headquarters in Barnsley, where wreaths were laid outside the hall.

Usdaw general secretary Joanne Thomas said: “We pay tribute today to two men who were killed for standing up for what was right.

“But their families have been denied justice.”

FBU general secretary Steve Wright said Orgreave “reminds us not only of our history, but of unfinished battles of the present.”

Jones was picketing at Ollerton in Nottinghamshire on March 15 1984 when he was hit by a brick and died from his injuries.

Green was killed on June 15 1984 after being struck by a lorry while on picket duty.

But more than 40 years on and nobody has been arrested, charged or convicted for their deaths.

Last year, the government announced an inquiry into the violent confrontation between police, picketers and subsequent protesters at Orgreave.