FILE PHOTO: A for sale sign stands by the closed Clipstone Colliery in Clipstone near Mansfield, central England, April 9, 2013. REUTERS/Darren Staples/File Photo
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Monday it would hold an inquiry into the "Battle of Orgreave", a violent confrontation between police and striking coal miners in 1984 at the height of a year-long industrial dispute with Margaret Thatcher's government.
More than 5,000 striking miners clashed with a similar number of riot police who had been drafted in from across the country at the Orgreave coking plant near Sheffield in northern England.
