Scargill is a hamlet in the Pennines of England, situated close to the River Greta.

Arthur Scargill ( born 11 January 1938 ) is a British politician and trade unionist who was president of the National Union of Mineworkers ( NUM ) from 1982 to 2002, leading the union through the 1984 / 85 miners ' strike, a key event in British labour and political history.

He is reported to have said " For me there's three great generals-Geronimo, Alexander the Great and Arthur Scargill ".

He has since left the SLP, though he remains an admirer of Scargill, and is no longer a member of any political party, although he gave his support to the now disbanded Socialist Alliance, and believes all socialist parties should unite.

The party is led by former trade union leader Arthur Scargill, who helped establish it in 1996 as a breakaway from the Labour Party, following the changes to the Labour Party's Clause IV.

Scargill House Christian conference centre is less than a mile from the centre of Kettlewell village.

The party effectively is a split from the Socialist Labour Party ( SLP ) of Arthur Scargill.

Tomlinson is a friend of Arthur Scargill and often appears on party election broadcasts for Scargill's Socialist Labour Party, most recently for the 2009 European Parliament elections, being its most prominent celebrity supporter since its formation in 1996 following a split by left-wing Labour members in response to Tony Blair's re-writing of Clause IV which ended the party's commitment to nationalisation.

Scargill is a dispersed settlement cosnsiting of a number of farms scattered over a wide area.

This reputation raised the expectation that jobs would be cut on a similar scale in mining, and confrontations between MacGregor and the leader of the miners, Arthur Scargill, seemed inevitable.

Scargill formed the Socialist Labour Party ( SLP ) which initially attracted some support, much of which transferred to the Socialist Alliance on its formation, but the SA has since been wound up and the SLP has become marginalised.

In the early 1990s, she and the film director Ken Loach collaborated on an edition of Hard News which investigated the treatment of trade unionist leader Arthur Scargill by The Daily Mirror newspaper and investigative journalist Roger Cook.

* Blog on the restoration of Scargill Castle

Answer: He eats two, the other one he puts on his head ; ( Scargill was known for having a particularly bad comb over ).

Amongst the people that he has interviewed are Harrison Ford, Elton John, David Bowie and Arthur Scargill, and after interviewing Roger Moore on the set of a James Bond film for The Sun, appeared as an extra, a man standing next to a swimming pool, in Octopussy.

* 1985 – Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.

** Arthur Scargill becomes President-elect of the National Union of Mineworkers.

Benn was a prominent supporter of the 1984 – 1985 UK miners ' strike and of his long-standing friend, the National Union of Mineworkers leader Arthur Scargill.

Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale, Barnsley, Yorkshire.

Scargill was a member of the Young Communist League from 1955 to 1962, when he joined the Labour Party.

Scargill became involved in the Yorkshire Left, a group of left-wing activists involved in the Yorkshire region of the NUM, its largest region.

On 12 March 1984, Arthur Scargill, president of the NUM, declared that the strikes in the various coal fields were to be a national strike and called for strike action from NUM members in all coal fields.

Scargill did not call a ballot for national strike action, perhaps due to uncertainty over the outcome.

Scargill was fined £ 1, 000 ( which was paid for him by an anonymous donor ), and the NUM was fined £ 200, 000.

In November 1984, there were allegations that Scargill had met Libyan agents in Paris, and other senior officials travelled to Libya.

In 1990, the Daily Mirror and TV programme The Cook Report claimed that Scargill and the NUM had received money from the Libyan government.

It was also claimed that Arthur Scargill diverted money donated by Russian miners during the strike.

The hint of a link tarnished Scargill and yet trust of him amongst striking miners remained firm.

Scargill was perceived as a militant hero by the unions, and as a Marxist thug by most of the mainstream press.

Scargill always denied these accusations and accused the government of fueling a smear campaign.

Frustrated at what he saw as " too much dead wood " in the organisation, key activist Tim Scargill left Class War in 1989 and now sings with punk band Sham 69, to be followed by founder Ian Bone.

Class War was then edited by Bristol Class War, and largely assisted by a group of activists from Leeds who had been strongly critical of the " stuntism " of Bone and Scargill, Class War began to be perceived by many anarchists as moving in a more reformist political direction.

The Orgreave coking plant, where coal was turned into coke for use in steel production, was regarded by Arthur Scargill as crucial.

* Arthur Scargill Leader of National Union of Mineworkers ( NUM ) from 1981 to 2000.

During the UK miners ' strike ( 1984 – 1985 ) Reid was highly critical of the strike and its leader Arthur Scargill in his newspaper column.

Arthur Scargill formed the Socialist Labour Party in 1996 as a reaction to Tony Blair's rewrite of Clause IV in the Labour Party's constitution a year earlier, seen as a final rejection of a commitment to socialism.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

An amazing article in the Manchester Guardian of last November, entitled `` Fate Of Redundant Churches '', states than an Archbishops' Commission `` reported last month that in the Church of England alone there are 790 churches which are redundant now, or will be in 20 years' time.

The general tone of articles appearing in such important newspapers as the Manchester Guardian and the Sunday Observer implies a kindly recognition that the Catholic Church is now at least of equal stature in England with the Protestant churches.

On successive Sundays during October, 1960, Paul Ferris ( a non-Catholic ) wrote articles in the Observer depicting clergymen of the Church of England, the Church of Rome and the Nonconformist Church.

We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New England theology.

The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches ( and a few other episcopal churches ) in full communion with the Church of England ( which is regarded as the mother church of the worldwide communion ) and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Some of these churches are known as Anglican, such as the Anglican Church of Canada, due to their historical link to England ( Ecclesia Anglicana means " English Church ").

Each church has its own doctrine and liturgy, based in most cases on that of the Church of England ; and each church has its own legislative process and overall episcopal polity, under the leadership of a local primate.