A group of Hyndburn councillors want Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to launch an inquiry into the disturbances at Orgreave colliery during the miners strike.

Five Labour members, led by Milnshaw ward's Councillor Paul Cox have tabled a motion for the borough's full council meeting on Thursday.

It says: "This council is disappointed by consecutive Home Secretaries’ refusals to hold an inquiry into policing of events at Orgreave during the 1984/85 Miner’s Strike.

"Many Hyndburn residents were involved in the dispute and members of the National Union of Mineworkers and suffered injustice during the strike.

"This council resolves to write to the Home Secretary to say there is widespread public concern about policing throughout the miners’ strike and call for an Orgreave inquiry."

The Battle of Orgreave - violence between pickets and South Yorkshire Police officers by the colliery near Rotherham, saw more than 120 people injured in clashes in June 1984.

It was one of the most violent clashes in British industrial history and a pivotal event in the strikes.

 In 2015, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) reported there was "evidence of excessive violence by police officers, a false narrative from police exaggerating violence by miners, perjury by officers giving evidence to prosecute the arrested men, and an apparent cover-up of that perjury by senior officers".

Trials against protestors collapsed due to unreliable police evidence and it was dubbed  "the worst example of a mass frame-up in this country this century" by barrister Michael Mansfield.

In 1991, 39 miners were paid a total of £425,000 in compensation by police in connection with the malicious prosecution.

In 2016, following the Hillsborough inquests, previously censored documents became public detailing the actions of senior officers, and renewed calls for an inquiry began, but then-Home Secretary Amber Rudd declined to open one.