Police overtime was welcomed during the miners' strike, the Police Officers sweat shirts had an ASPOM logo. (Arthur Scargill pays our mortgages - although, when questioned and soon to be in the mire over it, they said it stood for Avon and Somerset Police Operation Miner.)
I never made a penny out of the miners strike.............................................the hunger strikes though
bought my first Capri thanks to slimmer of the year