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Liverpool's 23-year boycott of The Sun newspaper

It was described by The Sun newspaper as the most terrible mistake in its history.

An article printed in the paper after the 1989 Hillsborough football disaster, under the headline The Truth, prompted a boycott by readers in Liverpool.

As The Sun on Sunday prepares to hit the shelves this weekend Don't Buy The Sun campaigners in Liverpool have said previous apologies were not "heartfelt" and they will continue their campaign.

The paper reported at the time that some fans at the FA Cup semi-final, where 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death, pickpocketed the dead and urinated on police.
'Never forgive'

Despite a full page apology for the story in July 2004 and another apology by News International's executive chairman James Murdoch in 2011, the boycott, which campaigners say also extended to the News Of The World, still stands.

Campaign spokesman Peter Hooton said: "The boycott of The Sun is symbolic, and after 23 years it is still as strong as ever on Merseyside.

"People don't feel that there has been any genuine apology. There won't be closure on this until there is justice for the 96.

"Most Liverpool fans will never forgive the paper and will never buy it."

News International was contacted about newspaper sales in Merseyside but declined to comment on regional breakdowns.

"The time for apologising came and went. The apology in 2004 was too little too late, The Sun will never recover in this city."

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