Guernica-style battle of Orgreave painting stars in miners’ strikes exhibition

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Guernica-style battle of Orgreave painting stars in miners’ strikes exhibition

Bob Olley’s unsettling vision of clash between miners and police is part of 40th anniversary show in Bishop AucklandBob Olley was there 40 years ago at the “battle of Orgreave”. “I saw the violence,” he said, shaking his head. “I thought I was in a foreign country when I saw what the police did. It is hard to believe it happened in this country.”The brutality he and others witnessed on 18 June 1984 as striking miners met 6,000 police officers on…