Michael Strobel as ‘King’ Arthur Scargill (centre) and Stewart Howson as Durham NUM leader Lawrence Davies (above)

Arthur Scargill, the National Union of Minerworkers life president who went to battle against Margaret Thatcher (Iron Lady) in 1984 by calling a national coal strike, is the central character in “Dust” at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Pictured at the Scottish National Mining Museum, commissioned by Quidem Productions and Universal Arts and in the daily press tomorrow.