P163 BEEBFAX 122 Thu 31 Dec --:--/--                                               * 14 December - Arthur Scargill,  president of the NUM, is fined £250  and ordered to pay £750 for his  involvement in the rioting at Orgreave  coking plant on 29 May this year. He  decides against appealing his  convictions, despite his lawyers  advising him to do so.  * 16 December - Mikhail Gorbachev of  the Soviet Union visits Britain.  * 18 December - The government  announces the privatisation of the  Trustee Savings Bank.     100-Contents 101-Headlines   Next       Prev       Home        End