Miners' strike campaigner to speak at protest meeting

JUSTICE campaigners will be speaking at a South Yorkshire public meeting next week.

Speakers from the Orgreave and Hillsborough campaigns and the Defend the Right to Protest group will address the meeting next Thursday at 7pm at the Central United Reformed Church, Norfolk Street, Sheffield.

Sheila Coleman will be speaking from the Hillsborough families’ campaign, along with and Barbara Jackson, from the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign.

It follows revelations about a police cover-up over the Hillsborough disaster and statements being changed after arrests of picketing miners at the Orgreave coke plant in Rotherham.

Another speaker is Alfie Meadows, who in February faces a third trial for charges brought after the student protests.

Alfie almost died following a blow to the head with a truncheon.