Liverpool ECHO exhibition of Hillsborough coverage unveiled

Exhibition recording how the Liverpool Echo and Liverpool Daily Post reported the Hillsborough disaster 300Key Echo staff from 1989 who covered the Disaster will be giving a talk and answering any questions at 1.30pm Wednesday 14th April at the ECHO building, Old Hall St, LiverpoolAN EXHIBITION charting the ECHO's coverage of the Hillsborough Disaster will be unveiled to mark the 21st anniversary of the tragedy.The atrium of the ECHO's Old Hall Street offices has become a gallery for a week to showcase the 96 most crucial stories published in our pages in the days, months and years that followed April 15, 1989.Margaret Aspinall of Hillsborough Family Support Group said that after 21 years the old news cuttings still have an important message.She said: 'I think it's still educating people.'There are a lot of people, especially younger ones, who don't understand.'I think it's important for people to be aware, as well, of each stage we've been through to get to today.'The exhibition will feature the emergency Sunday Echo that was published on April 16, 1989 - the starting point for our coverage and fight for justice that has continued right through to the recent appointment of a panel to finally review the Hillsborough files.Sheila Coleman from the Hillsborough Justice Campaign added: 'In the 21st year after Hillsborough, this exhibition is a fitting tribute not only to the 96 people who were killed but also to the ongoing fight for justice.'Long-serving ECHO features writer Paddy Shennan was a 24-year-old district reporter in Knowsley in 1989.

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