Hundreds of people attended a memorial ceremony and lecture on Saturday marking the deaths of two miners in the 1984-5 strike against pit closures.

Davy Jones from Yorkshire was struck by a missile on the picket line in Nottinghamshire. Joe Green was run down by a lorry while picketing a Yorkshire power station.

No-one has ever been charged over their deaths.

Every year miners, ex-miners and their friends gather at the National Union of Mineworkers' headquarters in Barnsley for a wreath-laying ceremony, followed by a meeting and lecture in the historic council chamber of the Yorkshire miners.

This year's event was packed to capacity, with 200 seated and more standing, surrounded by union banners of pits shut by the Tories.

On the platform were framed photographs of RMT general secretary Bob Crow and veteran socialist Tony Benn, who died last week.

A minute's silence was observed - and later a standing ovation was given in their honour.

Mark Jones, Davy's father, drew his own standing ovation after calling for the leading Tories and their accomplices who provoked the strike to be prosecuted for manslaughter.

Mr Jones, who is 80, said: "It was not only Davy and Joe who suffered terribly. Twelve people died in the strike. That little group of madmen who sat round a table and planned this should be charged with manslaughter."

The dead included youngsters killed while "picking" coal from spoil heaps to heat their homes in the winter of 1984-5.

Train drivers' union Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan derided the Tories for describing themselves as "the workers' party."

"Not my workers," he declared.

The main speaker was Wansbeck Labour MP Ian Lavery, former president of the National Union of Mineworkers.

In a barnstorming and inspirational speech, he praised the achievements of Bob Crow and Tony Benn and lambasted Boris Johnson and other Tory "hypocrites" and their media allies for praising them once they were dead.