Among those who attended the funeral service of Tony Benn at Westminster today was the former miners' leader Arthur Scargill.
Back in the early 1980s Arthur Scargill was regularly in the news as the Yorkshire miners went head to head with the Thatcher government.
He was almost a daily feature on the then 1pm ITN News.
In those same days the FTSE hit the 800 mark.
At the time I was teaching in Newbridge, the ITN News was during school lunch break.
The Scargill battle and the health of the FTSE became topics for 'fun bets'. Taking part were three of us, maths and science teacher, Canice Murphy and another maths teacher, the late John O'Gorman.
Over 30 years ago.
The mines closed, the FTSE soared.
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