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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

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With me are the sports writer and commentator Tony Evans

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and journalist James Millar of the Sunday Post.

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A special late edition of the Liverpool Echo leads

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with the findings of an inquest jury into the Hillsborough disaster, that

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The Metro also leads with the Hillsborough inquest verdicts -

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including the possible criminal charges now facing former police

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'After 27 years, justice' - that's the Gaurdian's headline,

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with the front page showing some of the relatives of the 96 fans

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The New Day also leads with Hillsborough -

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including the criminal charges the CPS is considering following

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that's the headline on the Daily Mirror.

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The FT is running a story on the cyber threat increases

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following a raid on the Bangladeshi central bank.

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The Daily Mail puts the resignation of Labour MP

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Naz Shah who was an aide to the shadow

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chancellor after controversial comments on Israel

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On the front page of the Daily Express is a story

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about a new drug which is shown to tackle cholesterol

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without the distressing side effects of statins.

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And the Sun puts on its front page that the Prime Minister's inner

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circle are sending group texts on WhatsApp to keep EU

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We will start with a late addition of the Liverpool Echo. Tony,

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unlawful killing is what it has at the bottom, a composite of some of

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the relatives who died, is that the Liver building? Yes. You were there.

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What goes through your mind? Everyone was smeared, it was not

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accidental death, this was far from an accident. It was a colour amity,

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a collapse of police procedures. The people who be trusted to keep us

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safe failed and then they tried to deflect blame. This is a momentous

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moment not just for Liverpool, Liverpool fans, every time you send

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a loved one, a member of your family out to a public event, you need to

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know that the police will protect them, the emergency services will be

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there for them if something goes wrong. It is not about us, it is

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about keeping people safe and that is what we need to get over to the

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rest of the country, it is not about Liverpool or football fans, it is

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about being safe. It is about everybody. James, at the end, the

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storms of golden sky, that suggest that people want prosecutions

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following the unlawful killing verdict. That is the next stage of

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the story. It has been going on for so long. I camera member it starting

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in 1989 with the disaster, here we are 27 years later and we just had

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an FA Cup semifinal at the weekend and we are still talking about this.

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If there are to be prosecutions, we will still be talking about it for

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some time to come. It does feel like a chapter has closed, the story is

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ongoing, but this is the end of another chapter. Let's go to The New

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Day. Justice that the 96 finally is the headline, prosecutions for those

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people who have been held to be responsible as a result of these

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verdicts. Do you want to see people go to jail? I think they will be too

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old by the time it comes around. I want them to take responsibility for

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their actions and basically be shamed in public, be embarrassed for

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one the failure to do the job on the day that led to 96 people dying and

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secondly for attempting to deflect the blame onto other people. If it

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happened today and the same time frame was going, you would get this

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verdict in 2043, it is mind boggling. That is what the families

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have gone through. It has been such a long time, I am not sure there

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will be any value in putting people in jail, but there is value in

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saying if you do these things and you make such climate as mistakes,

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then you need to be responsible for them. -- terrible mistakes.

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Investigations have been going on for some time. And they will go on

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for some time. It is such a huge story. Not very often these days do

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we get a story that is across so many front pages. It says a lots of

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journalism, there are so many different angles to be covered in

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it. There is the issue of the ongoing criminal proceedings. There

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is a very human story, people who loved ones -- who lost loved ones,

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the cover-up, possibly at the heart of it, it is not so much mistakes

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made the day, it is a conspiracy to blame the fans. It is all this to

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unpick. The different papers are taking different angles, The New Day

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and that echoes seemed to be talking about the human side. -- The Echo.

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The Metro is looking at the truth. Suggestions that the police or

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culpable to a point in this. Without a doubt. The police and senior

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politicians, write to the senior level of government, they were

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briefed, when they knew who was responsible, they briefed against

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the fans. We need to go into that. The famous front page on The Sun,

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the truth, that has haunted us. People always say we have seen the

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truth, it was in the papers. I said would you steal from dead bodies

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washed and Mark and they said no, and then I would say well why would

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you think I would? -- steal from dead bodies? To deny responsibility,

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that is really worrying. Tony, those people in the press at the time did

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not want to know what the truth was. The stories that were being

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presented to them by the police were simply too good to check. Yes.

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Journalism is supposed to check the facts and tell us what is really

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happening, but there were certain people in the media who are happy to

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accept what they were being told. These are different times, 89 is a

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long time ago. A different attitude towards football at the time and

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football culture. And with good reason, it was easy to blame fans

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because people were willing to believe football fans were

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hooligans. It is a completely different game to what it is now

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with all the money that has gone into it and the improvements in

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stadiums and all the rest of it. People were much more willing to

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believe it. But the point is good journalists are supposed to then

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check those facts and confirm or deny them. The Sun certainly, with

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its initial the truth from page didn't, they just publish them. We

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know what the truth is now. The Metro has those two words on its

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front page, the -- The Sun does not mention Hillsborough at all. Kelvin

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MacKenzie made a joke about being made a Tory peer and said Lord

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McKenzie of Anfield has a ring to it. He has to credit -- discredited

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journalism. This is not so much about football fans. The Sun needs

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to realise it is about the cover-up and the miscarriage of justice and

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for its not even make the front page. It has not made the front page

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of the times either. It is an abdication of responsibility and it

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is poor journalism. The surprising thing about The Sun, you could

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almost understand if they had a front-page story where they say it

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is about a famous person and we will sell lots of copies of the sun, but

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it is utter guff. It is David Cameron uses social media. It is not

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a story, it is not a front-page story when there is this huge story

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going on elsewhere. It is almost as if they are trying to make The Sun

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the story and like they are mocking Hillsborough. They are keeping it

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off their front page. There is still bad feeling on Merseyside. They are

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100,000 sales down a day. What would bring it to an" to mark it is too

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late, they had an opportunity back in the 90s, even later where if they

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apologised and said we lied and made a huge contribution, maybe they

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would have lifted the boycott. -- could they ever get back their sales

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figures in Liverpool? In the Guardian, 27 years, a long time to

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wait. To go from The Sun to this, this is good journalism. The same

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goes for the Daily Mirror. Certain journalists have been all over this

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and not just all over it, they have gone into it and committed to it and

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they have covered it really well. They have not got so sucked up into

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it that they explain it to really owes -- that they can't explain it

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to readers in an investing way. From the day after the tragedy, this guy

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wrote a really emotive piece in the daily post in the bubble and he has

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fought every battle with the families and he has been a huge

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influence. The Guardian's investment in journalism, to let him be there

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almost everyday, it is fantastic. As we end the Hillsborough coverage in

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the papers, we will remind you that you can see a special documentary

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about the Hillsborough disaster. We have a bit of time to go onto The

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Daily Express. The first all-out strike by junior doctors. A sad day

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for the NHS says Jeremy Hunt. There is another day of all-out strikes

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that will begin. Yes, tomorrow. This is another massive story. There are

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two huge stories going on. Any other day this would be all over the front

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pages. As you say, there will be another one. The interesting thing

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is Jeremy Hunt can say what he wants. All the polls suggest there

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is pretty solid support among the doctors, given the choice, trust

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doctors or politicians, doctors will win every time. It does not look as

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if any side will get any closer to a deal. This is a precious thing, the

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NHS and we should all be behind it and Jeremy Hunt does not want it to

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continue. That is one point of view. Thank you for joining us for the

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papers. Don't forget all the papers are online on the BBC website. All

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therefore you on the website. -- there for you. Thanks again to our

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reviewers. You are watching BBC News, goodbye.

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