liverpool radio stations and websites are buzzing with the fall out from recent events regarding The Sun newspaper. A tv show last night showed attempts by the managing editor of the Sun, Graham Dudman, to get the Hillsborough Family Support Group to accept an apology for its front page article at the time of the event which made a series of unfounded allegations under the headline 'The Truth' .
the Boycott of the Sun has been entrenched in popular culture on merseyside and shows little sign of letting up.
Dudman had offered the apology - on the agreement that the paper would campaign for Justice on behalf of the group should they accept.
Yesterday morning a popular radio merseyside phone in featured Dudman and Trevor and Jenny Hicks who lost two daughters in the disaster, and whose story was the main focus of the brilliant drama hillsborough by jimmy Mcgovern. Neither Jenny nor Trevor were representing any group and were there in a personal capacity. Neither the HFSG or the Hillsborough Justice Campaign took part in the phone in.
both jenny and Trevor were willing to accept The Suns apology and for some reason chose to call on others, despite the group decision, also to accept.
"I don't want to cause any offence by my views or my opinions but I do accept [Sun managing editor] Graham Dudman's and [editor] Rebekah Wade's apology on this," Ms Hicks said.
"I know it's a very, very sensitive subject in Liverpool and I can understand why, the things that were said at the time were absolutely horrific," she told BBC Radio.
It seems to be that the Sun is holding the group so desperate for justice, to ransom.
the Boycott of the Sun has been entrenched in popular culture on merseyside and shows little sign of letting up.
Dudman had offered the apology - on the agreement that the paper would campaign for Justice on behalf of the group should they accept.
Yesterday morning a popular radio merseyside phone in featured Dudman and Trevor and Jenny Hicks who lost two daughters in the disaster, and whose story was the main focus of the brilliant drama hillsborough by jimmy Mcgovern. Neither Jenny nor Trevor were representing any group and were there in a personal capacity. Neither the HFSG or the Hillsborough Justice Campaign took part in the phone in.
both jenny and Trevor were willing to accept The Suns apology and for some reason chose to call on others, despite the group decision, also to accept.
"I don't want to cause any offence by my views or my opinions but I do accept [Sun managing editor] Graham Dudman's and [editor] Rebekah Wade's apology on this," Ms Hicks said.
"I know it's a very, very sensitive subject in Liverpool and I can understand why, the things that were said at the time were absolutely horrific," she told BBC Radio.
It seems to be that the Sun is holding the group so desperate for justice, to ransom.