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It was a coal mine, then the site of a clash between miners and police. We visit Orgreave to see how it has been transformed

Waverley, a new town in South Yorkshire, is built on the site of Orgreave Colliery, where miners and police clashed in the 1980s. Jenny Messenger visits the scheme to find out more

Split image of the riots in the 1980s and the site now
Picture: Alamy, Wikimedia

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