Hillsborough Law Should Never Have Been Needed
This fight took decades, but the families never gave up. Now the truth must be protected by law.
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Long overdue progress
When I first read through the Hillsborough Law...
Hillsborough Families Deserve More Than Empty Promises
Pain That Never Recedes
Each April, the shadow of Hillsborough returns. This year marks 36 years since 97 Liverpool supporters lost their lives in Britain’s worst sporting disaster. Brian Reade of the Mirror revisits that day in his powerful column, offering not only personal reflection but a scathing indictment...
There was a sense of unfinished business when the season ended and the new fixture list underlined that. We’re less than two months away from the new campaign and the sooner the action starts again the better.
Almost everyone at the club has something to prove. Last season was seriously substandard. There were too many...
‘If it wasn’t for the Scousers we could stand.’
In January 1990, a mere eight months after the Hillsborough disaster, Lord Justice Taylor published his findings in what became known as The Taylor Report. The two headlines, as it were, were plain and simple. Firstly, the disaster was caused by a lack of police control...
