Maggie and the miners - were the army at the ready?

Government papers released under the thirty-year rule reveal that MargaretThatcher followed the  miners trike with a forensic oversight bordering on obsession- and the military could have also intervened.Sign up for Snowmail, your daily preview of what is on Channel 4 News, sent straight to your inbox, here: http://mailing.channel4.com/public/sn...

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