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Three former miners have launched a bid for a Seafield Colliery disaster memorial to remember the five Fife men who died 50 years ago.

A Fife couple who were forced to burn shoes to keep warm during a bitter and divisive 1984 miners' strike have called for compensation.

The Scottish Government has published a bill which will pardon those convicted during the miners' strike of 1984-1985.

The Scottish Government has published a bill which will pardon those convicted during the miners' strike of 1984-1985.

The Scottish Government has published a bill which will pardon those convicted during the miners' strike of 1984-1985.

Siblings Bill Black and Margaret Frew returned to their childhood village that once housed more than 500 people

© DC Thomson Sign up for our daily newsletter of the top stories in Courier country Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A new report has suggested the Covid-19 pandemic has “wiped out” a decade of progress in Fife’s former coalfield communities. Researchers say unemployment in areas of older industrial Britain is now above the levels experienced 10 years ago in the wake of the financial crisis, with the in...