{"id":138804,"date":"2025-07-22T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138804"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T22:54:11","slug":"church-times-bishop-of-sheffield-to-chair-orgreave-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138804","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Bishop of Sheffield to chair Orgreave inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bishop-of-sheffield\">Bishop of Sheffield<\/a>, Dr Pete Wilcox, is to chair a statutory inquiry into the violence at the coking plant at Orgreave, Rotherham, in 1984, when 6000\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/police\">police<\/a>\u00a0officers, many on horseback, confronted a protest of striking miners who had responded to a call by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) for a mass picket of the pit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inquiry will be \u201cthorough and fair\u201d, Dr Wilcox said on Monday. The NUM has promised him \u201cany assistance that he requires to ensure that the inquiry uncovers the truth about who orchestrated the events at Orgreave . . . so that precautions can be put in place so it never happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The miners were striking over the National Coal Board\u2019s plans to close 20 collieries, with the loss of 20,000 jobs: 120 injuries were recorded as riot squads pursued fleeing miners into Orgreave village, and 95 picketers \u2014 assembled to prevent lorries conveying coke to the Scunthorpe steelworks \u2014 were arrested and charged with riot and violent disorder. All the charges were later dropped after the evidence was discredited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/25-july\/news\/uk\/bishop-of-sheffield-to-chair-orgreave-inquiry\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Bishop of Sheffield <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteWilcox1564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PeteWilcox1564<\/a> is to chair a statutory inquiry into the violence at the coking plant at Orgreave, Rotherham, in 1984 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ygOdxWmV8d\">https:\/\/t.co\/ygOdxWmV8d<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1947377915932373384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Bishop of Sheffield, Dr Pete Wilcox, is to chair a statutory inquiry into the violence at the coking plant at Orgreave, Rotherham, in 1984, when 6000\u00a0police\u00a0officers, many on horseback, confronted a protest of striking miners who had responded to a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138804\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,635,199,133,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-history","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138804"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138809,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138804\/revisions\/138809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}