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  I am proud of my involvement in the miners strike and truly believe that the role women played supporting their miners led to a huge increase in political awareness for women. This had a direct influence on empowering women to challenge those institutions, namely health, education, pensions, wages and employment rights, to bring about change for the benefit of all (not just women).
  I was charged with besetting a miners house, when the officers called to make the charge they had to phone HQ to find out what it meant. When informed that the translation was "to surround" the charges could not be brought as the house in question was terraced !
  The fact that the "miner" who had returned to work discharged a shotgun onto a public highway- I gatherd a handful of pellets as proof- narrowly missing two little girls playing on a public footpath, who were traunmatised by the experience, was excused of any crime proved to me that our wonderful justice system was a puppet of the tory gov.
  A Chief Inspector from another force spoke to me "off record" and apologised for the ,Quote,bully-boy tactics of the officers drafted in from other forces. To this day he sends me a Christmas card.

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