Now 37 years on from the disaster, a bill has passed forcing public authorities to take accountability.
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The boycott caused the percentage of people who said they supported the Labour party to increase by about 16 percentage points.
The tragedy this year shares similarities with the 1943 Bethnal Green disaster in London.
Witnesses spent a surprising amount of time talking about what didn’t happen that day – which is very significant.
The decision to move the Stasi files into the German national archive has sparked debate of how memories of life before reunification should be handled.
This is about more than justice for the 96.
As Senegal mourns the victims of the Demba Diop football stadium crush and searches for answers, it is to be hoped that lessons are learned, and consequences are swift.
The investigation into the Hillsborough disaster took a long and twisted path – the government must learn from its mistakes.
Here’s what you need to know before you cast your vote in the elections for local police crime commissioners.
Safe standing stadiums and less invasive crowd control would be the final step to overturn Hillsborough’s wrongful legacy on British football.
All UK tabloids, but particularly The Sun, have a lot to answer for with their disgraceful reporting.
Two inquests, millions of pounds, 27 years, 96 dead, one verdict: that police failures led to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, and police lies tried to cover it up.
The home secretary, Theresa May, has announced a major independent inquiry into claims that for decades, accusations and evidence of child abuse were dismissed, ignored and mishandled by many of Britain’s…
It is the 25th anniversary of the worst sporting tragedy in the UK: the Hillsborough football disaster, where 96 Liverpool fans died at an FA cup semi-final game against Nottingham Forest. As a mark of…
The news that a group of environmental protesters who stopped a train carrying coal to the Drax power station in 2009 have had their convictions overturned should give us pause for thought about the current…
The release of Hillsborough Independent Panel’s report into the death of 96 football fans at the 1989 FA Cup Semi Final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest is not just a landmark in British history…
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