The way they were: the 1979 NUJ poster of the Nottingham Evening Post journalists sacked during the national strike of that year

The group travelled to Nottingham from all over the country to take part in the get-together, which was organised after four of the 28 took part in a radio programme on the dispute.

The 28 reporters and subs from the Evening Post were sacked for "disloyalty" after joining the provincial journalists’ national strike which began on 5 December 1978 and ended just over six weeks later, on 17 January 1979.

The Evening Post, then owned by T. Bailey Forman, was the only paper in the country not to take back its journalists when the strike ended.

Last Saturday's reunion was attended by 20 of the 28 sacked journalists, but there are still three names on the 'where-are-they-now?' list.

They are Robin Anderson, who edited the now defunct Delegates magazine in London before moving to Northumberland, Paul Cowan ex-editor of the Stornoway Gazette, and Peter Anderson, who worked as a sub in Loughborough and Peterborough.

Anyone who can help locate them should contact Terry Wootton on terry.wootton@talktalk.net or phone 0115 912 3018.

Journalists sacked in the 1979 dispute who attended Saturday's 30-year anniversary reunion