Bob Hughes is a former PC who was sent to police picket lines during the strike in 1984-85.
A former police officer who was sent to police picket lines during the miners' strike in 1984 said he still had sympathy for the plight of miners at the time.
He worked 16-hour days at pits across the country, spent 30 weeks away from his family and compared it to working in a warzone.March marks 40 years since the start of the strikes which were an attempt to prevent the closure of coal mines. In one incident, Mr Hughes said he was shot with an air rifle but was protected by a fire extinguisher strapped to his back.
"It is not on the same scale, I know, but it was much like the fighter pilots during the last war," he added."Then all of a sudden, you go from this lethargy and you have to turn it on like that."Mr Hughes, who was 29 at the time, was sent to Nottinghamshire on 16 March 1984 to a pit called Clipstone."That destroyed and damaged a lot of marriages because the wife was left alone with the kids, doing all the stuff you would have normally done as a couple.
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