Miners strike - Funeral of David Wilkie, killed by pickets
- Title
- Miners strike - Funeral of David Wilkie, killed by pickets
- Genre
- News report; Speech
- TX Date
- Dec 1984
- Year of production
- 1984
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- Duration
- 00:02:50
- Description
- Report on the funeral of taxi driver, David Wilkie, who died when striking miners threw a concrete block from a bridge onto his car as he was driving a non-striking miner to work in Wales. In his formal address, the Right Reverend John Poole Hughes, Bishop of Llandaff talks about reconciliation. Female reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- John Poole Hughes
- Keywords
- Strikes; Labour disputes; Violence; Taxi drivers; Wales; Coal miners; Funerals; Coal Strike (1984-1985); Manslaughter; Church services; Strikes (events); David Wilkie
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