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:00:16. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:19. > :00:22.With me are the sports writer and commentator Tony Evans

:00:23. > :00:24.and journalist James Millar of the Sunday Post.

:00:25. > :00:36.A special late edition of the Liverpool Echo leads

:00:37. > :00:39.with the findings of an inquest jury into the Hillsborough disaster, that

:00:40. > :00:42.The Metro also leads with the Hillsborough inquest verdicts -

:00:43. > :00:45.including the possible criminal charges now facing former police

:00:46. > :00:50.'After 27 years, justice' - that's the Gaurdian's headline,

:00:51. > :00:54.with the front page showing some of the relatives of the 96 fans

:00:55. > :01:02.The New Day also leads with Hillsborough -

:01:03. > :01:06.including the criminal charges the CPS is considering following

:01:07. > :01:10.that's the headline on the Daily Mirror.

:01:11. > :01:16.The FT is running a story on the cyber threat increases

:01:17. > :01:18.following a raid on the Bangladeshi central bank.

:01:19. > :01:32.The Daily Mail puts the resignation of Labour MP

:01:33. > :01:35.Naz Shah who was an aide to the shadow

:01:36. > :01:36.chancellor after controversial comments on Israel

:01:37. > :01:40.On the front page of the Daily Express is a story

:01:41. > :01:42.about a new drug which is shown to tackle cholesterol

:01:43. > :01:44.without the distressing side effects of statins.

:01:45. > :01:47.And the Sun puts on its front page that the Prime Minister's inner

:01:48. > :01:49.circle are sending group texts on WhatsApp to keep EU

:01:50. > :01:59.We will start with a late addition of the Liverpool Echo. Tony,

:02:00. > :02:09.unlawful killing is what it has at the bottom, a composite of some of

:02:10. > :02:18.the relatives who died, is that the Liver building? Yes. You were there.

:02:19. > :02:26.What goes through your mind? Everyone was smeared, it was not

:02:27. > :02:32.accidental death, this was far from an accident. It was a colour amity,

:02:33. > :02:37.a collapse of police procedures. The people who be trusted to keep us

:02:38. > :02:43.safe failed and then they tried to deflect blame. This is a momentous

:02:44. > :02:48.moment not just for Liverpool, Liverpool fans, every time you send

:02:49. > :02:52.a loved one, a member of your family out to a public event, you need to

:02:53. > :02:55.know that the police will protect them, the emergency services will be

:02:56. > :03:00.there for them if something goes wrong. It is not about us, it is

:03:01. > :03:05.about keeping people safe and that is what we need to get over to the

:03:06. > :03:09.rest of the country, it is not about Liverpool or football fans, it is

:03:10. > :03:17.about being safe. It is about everybody. James, at the end, the

:03:18. > :03:22.storms of golden sky, that suggest that people want prosecutions

:03:23. > :03:27.following the unlawful killing verdict. That is the next stage of

:03:28. > :03:33.the story. It has been going on for so long. I camera member it starting

:03:34. > :03:37.in 1989 with the disaster, here we are 27 years later and we just had

:03:38. > :03:42.an FA Cup semifinal at the weekend and we are still talking about this.

:03:43. > :03:47.If there are to be prosecutions, we will still be talking about it for

:03:48. > :03:51.some time to come. It does feel like a chapter has closed, the story is

:03:52. > :04:04.ongoing, but this is the end of another chapter. Let's go to The New

:04:05. > :04:09.Day. Justice that the 96 finally is the headline, prosecutions for those

:04:10. > :04:13.people who have been held to be responsible as a result of these

:04:14. > :04:20.verdicts. Do you want to see people go to jail? I think they will be too

:04:21. > :04:26.old by the time it comes around. I want them to take responsibility for

:04:27. > :04:31.their actions and basically be shamed in public, be embarrassed for

:04:32. > :04:35.one the failure to do the job on the day that led to 96 people dying and

:04:36. > :04:41.secondly for attempting to deflect the blame onto other people. If it

:04:42. > :04:47.happened today and the same time frame was going, you would get this

:04:48. > :04:51.verdict in 2043, it is mind boggling. That is what the families

:04:52. > :04:56.have gone through. It has been such a long time, I am not sure there

:04:57. > :04:59.will be any value in putting people in jail, but there is value in

:05:00. > :05:03.saying if you do these things and you make such climate as mistakes,

:05:04. > :05:11.then you need to be responsible for them. -- terrible mistakes.

:05:12. > :05:18.Investigations have been going on for some time. And they will go on

:05:19. > :05:23.for some time. It is such a huge story. Not very often these days do

:05:24. > :05:27.we get a story that is across so many front pages. It says a lots of

:05:28. > :05:33.journalism, there are so many different angles to be covered in

:05:34. > :05:36.it. There is the issue of the ongoing criminal proceedings. There

:05:37. > :05:44.is a very human story, people who loved ones -- who lost loved ones,

:05:45. > :05:52.the cover-up, possibly at the heart of it, it is not so much mistakes

:05:53. > :06:01.made the day, it is a conspiracy to blame the fans. It is all this to

:06:02. > :06:08.unpick. The different papers are taking different angles, The New Day

:06:09. > :06:21.and that echoes seemed to be talking about the human side. -- The Echo.

:06:22. > :06:26.The Metro is looking at the truth. Suggestions that the police or

:06:27. > :06:30.culpable to a point in this. Without a doubt. The police and senior

:06:31. > :06:36.politicians, write to the senior level of government, they were

:06:37. > :06:39.briefed, when they knew who was responsible, they briefed against

:06:40. > :06:50.the fans. We need to go into that. The famous front page on The Sun,

:06:51. > :06:58.the truth, that has haunted us. People always say we have seen the

:06:59. > :07:02.truth, it was in the papers. I said would you steal from dead bodies

:07:03. > :07:05.washed and Mark and they said no, and then I would say well why would

:07:06. > :07:18.you think I would? -- steal from dead bodies? To deny responsibility,

:07:19. > :07:23.that is really worrying. Tony, those people in the press at the time did

:07:24. > :07:27.not want to know what the truth was. The stories that were being

:07:28. > :07:33.presented to them by the police were simply too good to check. Yes.

:07:34. > :07:37.Journalism is supposed to check the facts and tell us what is really

:07:38. > :07:41.happening, but there were certain people in the media who are happy to

:07:42. > :07:47.accept what they were being told. These are different times, 89 is a

:07:48. > :07:53.long time ago. A different attitude towards football at the time and

:07:54. > :07:58.football culture. And with good reason, it was easy to blame fans

:07:59. > :08:01.because people were willing to believe football fans were

:08:02. > :08:04.hooligans. It is a completely different game to what it is now

:08:05. > :08:08.with all the money that has gone into it and the improvements in

:08:09. > :08:13.stadiums and all the rest of it. People were much more willing to

:08:14. > :08:17.believe it. But the point is good journalists are supposed to then

:08:18. > :08:25.check those facts and confirm or deny them. The Sun certainly, with

:08:26. > :08:29.its initial the truth from page didn't, they just publish them. We

:08:30. > :08:44.know what the truth is now. The Metro has those two words on its

:08:45. > :08:48.front page, the -- The Sun does not mention Hillsborough at all. Kelvin

:08:49. > :08:53.MacKenzie made a joke about being made a Tory peer and said Lord

:08:54. > :09:02.McKenzie of Anfield has a ring to it. He has to credit -- discredited

:09:03. > :09:05.journalism. This is not so much about football fans. The Sun needs

:09:06. > :09:10.to realise it is about the cover-up and the miscarriage of justice and

:09:11. > :09:16.for its not even make the front page. It has not made the front page

:09:17. > :09:20.of the times either. It is an abdication of responsibility and it

:09:21. > :09:24.is poor journalism. The surprising thing about The Sun, you could

:09:25. > :09:29.almost understand if they had a front-page story where they say it

:09:30. > :09:34.is about a famous person and we will sell lots of copies of the sun, but

:09:35. > :09:41.it is utter guff. It is David Cameron uses social media. It is not

:09:42. > :09:46.a story, it is not a front-page story when there is this huge story

:09:47. > :09:50.going on elsewhere. It is almost as if they are trying to make The Sun

:09:51. > :09:58.the story and like they are mocking Hillsborough. They are keeping it

:09:59. > :10:04.off their front page. There is still bad feeling on Merseyside. They are

:10:05. > :10:11.100,000 sales down a day. What would bring it to an" to mark it is too

:10:12. > :10:16.late, they had an opportunity back in the 90s, even later where if they

:10:17. > :10:22.apologised and said we lied and made a huge contribution, maybe they

:10:23. > :10:32.would have lifted the boycott. -- could they ever get back their sales

:10:33. > :10:40.figures in Liverpool? In the Guardian, 27 years, a long time to

:10:41. > :10:45.wait. To go from The Sun to this, this is good journalism. The same

:10:46. > :10:49.goes for the Daily Mirror. Certain journalists have been all over this

:10:50. > :10:54.and not just all over it, they have gone into it and committed to it and

:10:55. > :11:04.they have covered it really well. They have not got so sucked up into

:11:05. > :11:09.it that they explain it to really owes -- that they can't explain it

:11:10. > :11:15.to readers in an investing way. From the day after the tragedy, this guy

:11:16. > :11:21.wrote a really emotive piece in the daily post in the bubble and he has

:11:22. > :11:28.fought every battle with the families and he has been a huge

:11:29. > :11:33.influence. The Guardian's investment in journalism, to let him be there

:11:34. > :11:37.almost everyday, it is fantastic. As we end the Hillsborough coverage in

:11:38. > :11:39.the papers, we will remind you that you can see a special documentary

:11:40. > :11:52.about the Hillsborough disaster. We have a bit of time to go onto The

:11:53. > :12:00.Daily Express. The first all-out strike by junior doctors. A sad day

:12:01. > :12:08.for the NHS says Jeremy Hunt. There is another day of all-out strikes

:12:09. > :12:12.that will begin. Yes, tomorrow. This is another massive story. There are

:12:13. > :12:18.two huge stories going on. Any other day this would be all over the front

:12:19. > :12:25.pages. As you say, there will be another one. The interesting thing

:12:26. > :12:30.is Jeremy Hunt can say what he wants. All the polls suggest there

:12:31. > :12:34.is pretty solid support among the doctors, given the choice, trust

:12:35. > :12:39.doctors or politicians, doctors will win every time. It does not look as

:12:40. > :12:50.if any side will get any closer to a deal. This is a precious thing, the

:12:51. > :12:56.NHS and we should all be behind it and Jeremy Hunt does not want it to

:12:57. > :13:03.continue. That is one point of view. Thank you for joining us for the

:13:04. > :13:11.papers. Don't forget all the papers are online on the BBC website. All

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