I've read his statement to the Commons, but didn't see/hear it.
In the days after the disaster, a narrative took hold that drunk Liverpool fans had caused the disaster by forcing a gate. Allegations were printed that Liverpool fans had pickpocketed the dead and hampered rescue attempts in an infamous Sun front page headlined "The Truth", which led to a still ongoing boycott of the paper on Merseyside. The Sun editor at the time, Kelvin MacKenzie, on Wednesday offered "profuse apologies" for the first time.The panel found that the origin of the untrue claims was a local Sheffield press agency informed by four senior South Yorkshire police officers, a South Yorkshire Police Federations spokesperson and a local MP, Irvine Patnick.
A storm in a B-cup if you ask me.
Mr Margrave was in a ditch off the A614 road:A motorcyclist has been found alive in a ditch in South Yorkshire almost three days after crashing.Anthony Margrave, 40, from Goole, East Yorkshire, was reported missing by his partner after he went out on his new motorbike last Tuesday.Police, who searched for two days, said he was found seriously injured in the 6ft-deep ditch near Thorne where he had been for three nights.
Lord Tebbit said arguments against capital punishment for murder "have always been thin"
OFFS.Someone's been back down to the crypt to attach the electrodes to the rotting corpse -http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19643846
About 150 people killed because their killers have been freed to kill again."Would our courts have sentenced to death three innocent people a year, year in year out? I doubt it
Looks like the buildings are about to be engulfed by a tsunami with that swell on the right.
Neither the person who carved it or the Nazis had any idea it was made from such a rare substance, he said guessed.
According to extracts published on The Spectator's website, Mr MacKenzie writes: "Now I know - you know, we all know - that the fans were right."But it took 23 years, two inquiries, one inquest and research into 400,000 documents, many of which were kept secret under the 30-year no-publication rule, to discover there was a vast cover-up by South Yorkshire Police about the disaster."Where does that leave me?"
He chose to write his own headline and he should accept responsibility for it."
Thanks for the link. Here's Kelvin Mackenzie's question:QuoteAccording to extracts published on The Spectator's website, Mr MacKenzie writes: "Now I know - you know, we all know - that the fans were right."But it took 23 years, two inquiries, one inquest and research into 400,000 documents, many of which were kept secret under the 30-year no-publication rule, to discover there was a vast cover-up by South Yorkshire Police about the disaster."Where does that leave me?"And here is a perfectly sensible answer from South Yorkshire Police Chief Constable David CromptonQuoteHe chose to write his own headline and he should accept responsibility for it."Mackenzie trying to re-cast himself as victim is disgusting. What a creep.
I'm Jack Sparrow!
When the officers joined lifeboat crews on the river and tried to intercept the boat, Whelan hurled abuse at them shouting, ‘What are you going to do now?’ and ‘I believe this is out of your jurisdiction’.
