United We Stand: The CLF Art Café, Bussey Building, London
For most people, Ricky Tomlinson is best known as a much loved star of The Royle Family and Brookside. But in earlier times Tomlinson worked in the construction industry. In the early 1970s, he was at the centre of a strike which used the practise of `flying pickets’. In 1973, Tomlinson along with Des Warren and others were arrested and charged with conspiracy to intimidate and affray in what became known as the case of The Shrewsbury 24. Tomlinson and Warren were sent to jail.
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