Wednesday, July 31, 2013 Top Stories - Google News: Thatcher wanted troops to move coal - BBC News Top Stories - Google News Google News Thatcher wanted troops to move coal - BBC News Aug 1st 2013, 00:35 BBC NewsThatcher wanted troops to move coalBBC NewsMargaret Thatcher secretly considered using troops to transport coal around the UK in the event of a miners' strike, documents from 1983 reveal. The Conservative prime minister was planning how to counter possible action by Arthur Scargill's National Union ...National archives: William Hague? He'd be embarrassing - when Margaret ...The IndependentArchives round-up: cricket, Dear Ron, fertile pandas and other tid-bitsThe Times (subscription)1983 Archive: Papers reveal scheme to close more coal minesFinancial TimesTelegraph.co.uk -Mirror.co.uk -The Guardianall 21 news articles » You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions Tweet