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By Lucy Thornton For the first time, both sides of the bitter dispute – the strikers and those branded ‘scabs’ for returning to work – are having their voices heard side-by-side. Their powerful stories are being told by the National Coal Mining Museum and reveal horrifying tales of poverty with families forced to survive on squirrels. One striking miner even had to eat their pet rabbit because they had “nothing else to put on the table”. While those who crossed the picket line told how they lived in fear with mysterious and sinister phone warnings, saying: ‘We know where you live’. One miner, …

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