{"id":26573,"date":"2023-02-12T18:57:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T18:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/02\/12\/bbc-centenary-remembering-the-mining-strikes-in-wales\/"},"modified":"2023-02-12T18:57:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T18:57:22","slug":"bbc-centenary-remembering-the-mining-strikes-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=26573","title":{"rendered":"BBC centenary: Remembering the mining strikes in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">As the BBC marks 100 years of broadcasting in Wales, it looks back on some of the major events it has covered. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In March 1984, it documented the beginning of the miners&#8217; strikes, as workers across Wales picketed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">It was an attempt by miners to stop the National Coal Board (NCB) and the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher shutting down mines that were becoming less profitable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The mines were the income of hundreds of Welsh families. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The strikes lasted a year, but ultimately saw the decline of the industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-64618328?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] As the BBC marks 100 years of broadcasting in Wales, it looks back on some of the major events it has covered. In March 1984, it documented the beginning &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}