Liverpool, Merseyside, UK. 27th September, 2016. Don't buy the Sun newspaper campaigners lobby delegates. 27 years after the Hillsborough disaster as the campaign to outlaw the sun newspaper in the city of Liverpool continues. A local lobbying group were incensed that copies of the newspaper were being given away inside the conference hall. Credit: MediaWorldImages/Alamy Live News
After the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, in which 96 Liverpool football fans died in a crush, the Sun wrongly accused the fans of being responsible for the deaths. It prompted many people on Merseyside to stop buying what was, and is, Britain’s best-selling daily. Spontaneous outrage turned into a long-term boycott. With several newsagents refusing to stock the Sun, it is estimated that sales fell by more than 40,000 a day and never recovered.
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