Dont forget Notts miners voted on wether to strike or not,police prevented lots of Notts miners who supported the strike getting to thier pits.Only one pit (Moorgreen )voted to strike and the NCB immediatly said anyone at Moorgreen over 55 (if I remember correctly) could retire on £120 a week.One of the biggest problems in the Notts coalfield was what we refered to as the butcher,baker and candlestick brigade who had no real affiliation to the mining industry and only came into the mines after 1974 when wages became reasonable.Notts miners who were on strike attempted to redress the biased media by using a pirate radio station to inform the Notts miners who were working about what would happen if the strike was lost.The rest is history and what the radio station said became true.Do a search on Radio Arthur the miners pirate station and have a listen to the programmes that have survived