Readers may be interested to listen to a BBC Radio 4 interview, recorded as part of its coverage around the 40th anniversary of the 84/85 Miners Strike.
Former miner, Neil Foster, now a Spennymoor Town councillor, was interviewed outside the Stadium of Light (right), former site of the Monkwearmouth Colliery where he worked and was arrested on a picket line during the strike.
The interview, which aired on 30 January, is available to listen again on the BBC Sounds apps.
Spennymoor's local community newspaper.
