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The line’s engaged storiesxnxx This far out from the 1987 general election, and the biggest battle of Margret Thatcher's second term, her defeat of Arthur Scargill's miners strike, was slowly playing out. Although there were front page reports of the collapse of several prosecutions of miners following violence at the Orgreave coking plant, on page two of The Times was a report saying “disenchanted” Lancashire miners had lost faith in Scargill's National Union of Mineworkers, and were considering breaking away and joining a more moderate union.