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June 1985 wasn't a happy month for free festival goers in the UK. The start of the month (Saturday 1st) had seen the' legendary 'Battle Of The Beanfield' take place in Wiltshire as a 'Peace Convoy of vehicles expecting to take the site for the Stonehenge Festival of 1985 was mercilessly attacked and devastated by Thatcher's eager constabulary, fresh from either cracking the skulls of striking miners themselves or gagging for some equivalent action to show their colleagues that they could go in hard as well.

ITN reporter Kim Sabido said 'What I have seen in the last thirty minutes here in this field has been some of the most brutal police treatment of people that I've witnessed in my entire career as a journalist. The number of people who have been hit by policemen, who have been clubbed whilst holding babies in their arms in coaches around this field, is yet to be counted. There must surely be an inquiry after what has happened today.'

Legal action against the police followed, but it took nearly six years to get any sort of compensation from the state.

(...hope you don't mind - Just borrowing this bit of text - Ch33rs Headduster...)