Alex Thomson
Hillsborough: the real truth, 26 years on
Spare a moment for those who lost their lives in such terrible fashion, but pause too for all those who struggled afterwards amid pain and grief.
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What Starmer’s speech reveals about how Labour will change UK
After criticism over ‘freebies’, did Keir Starmer fire up Labour conference with his ‘change’ message? Cathy Newman asks the Leader of the Lords Angela Smith and the nursing union boss Nicola Ranger.
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20m
Can Labour save the economy? Rachel Reeves speech analysed
Krishnan Guru-Murthy and guests analyse Rachel Reeves’s speech in this episode of The Political Fourcast live from the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.
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Glitter-bombed Starmer promises a ‘decade of national renewal’
In Liverpool Sir Keir Starmer told the Labour Conference that he was shocked and appalled by ‘the cold blooded murder of men, women and children, including British citizens by the terrorists of Hamas.’
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Six charged over Hillsborough disaster
Six people have been charged with criminal offences relating to the Hillsborough disaster. Among them are the former chief superintendent of South Yorkshire Police, David Duckenfield, who faces charges of manslaughter by gross negligence, and former chief constable Sir Norman Bettison, charged with misconduct in public office. Families of the 96 people who died in…
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Phil Scraton: Hillsborough families have shown people ‘they can access justice’
If there is one individual who, more than anyone else, was responsible for campaigning for the truth of what happened at Hillsborough, it is Professor Phil Scraton, of Queen’s University in Belfast. He says the families’ long campaign shows that justice can prevail.
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Former police officer alleges Hillsborough cover-up
A former senior police officer has spoken exclusively to Channel 4 News after a report he’d written detailing command failings at Hillsborough was covered up.
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Alex Thomson
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Alex Thomson
Kelvin MacKenzie demands Hillsborough apology from police
Former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie says he has suffered “personal vilification for decades” because of the mistakes of the South Yorkshire Police
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Alex Thomson
The man who ‘saved my life’ at Hillsborough
Alex Thomson talks to a Liverpool football fan caught up in the events at Hillsborough in 1989: he survived the crush that led to the deaths of 96 people, thanks to a man who helped him scale a wall.
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Faisal Islam
Good news for Merseyside jobs – and for Michael Heseltine’s legacy
Lord Heseltine received the freedom of the City of Liverpool, on the day that the creation of thousands of jobs was announced. But all the main political parties seem to be fighting over the Heseltine inheritance of industrial activism.
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Jon Snow
Dr Jon Snow returns from Liverpool University
More than 40 years after he was sent down from Liverpool University for organising an anti-apartheid protest, Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow returns to pick up an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
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Jon Snow
Arriving at the Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool
Jon Snow blogs on his journey to the Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool – and his first impressions of the mood of delegates about the party’s coalition deal with the Conservatives.
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Faisal Islam
TUC’s dystopian vision of post-downturn Britain
As TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber addresses the TUC conference with talk of “social costs of Tory recessions”, the Conservatives have already won the fight to shift the argument to the need for cuts.
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Jon Snow
A green Brown success?
When history comes to review the Brown government, it has every chance of proving an unhappy event. Gordon Brown’s takeover from Tony Blair settled uneasily into a sad and dispossessed period of ‘readjustment’ to the global financial catastrophe. But one of history’s other asides in reviewing the Brown government may yet come to rest on…