Former chief constable Sir Norman Bettison has appeared in court for the first time as a suspect today almost 30 years on from the deaths of 96 men, women and children in the Hillsborough disaster.

Three trials are anticipated for the six men facing charges relating to the Hillsborough disaster, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.

Detectives leading a criminal investigation into the Hillsborough disaster have appealed for 19 people seen in CCTV footage at the stadium to come forward.

The wife of the match commander on the day of the Hillsborough disaster has said that she and her husband are also going through a "terrible" ordeal.

Families of the 96 Liverpool fans who died in the Hillsborough disaster declared that justice had finally been done as an inquest jury ruled the victims had been unlawfully killed in a tragedy caused by police blunders.

The jury in the inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans at the 1989 Hillsborough disaster has retired to consider its verdicts, two years after the hearings began.

Two family friends of the youngest victim at Hillsborough have described how they lost sight of the 10-year-old boy as crushing on a terrace at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final became “unbearable”.

Hillsborough police chief David Duckenfield has told the jury into the inquests of 96 Liverpool fans he was “a new and inexperienced match commander” faced with “unimaginably difficult and fast-moving circumstances”.

The police chief on the day the Hillsborough disaster occurred “apologised unreservedly” to the families of the 96 victims yesterday after admitting a “terrible lie” and misleading others minutes after the disaster unfolded.

The senior police officer in charge on the day of the Hillsborough disaster in England has arrived at court to give evidence at the new inquests.

A mother and father who fought for a quarter of a century for justice for the victims of the Hillsborough disaster have been given New Year Honours.

Kenny Dalglish has been questioned at the inquests into the Hillsborough disaster about the behaviour of Liverpool fans and hooliganism.

A senior officer who was in charge of policing Liverpool fans outside Hillsborough football stadium on the day of the 1989 disaster has said he had "profound regrets" that he did not ask for the match kick-off to be delayed.

A former police officer has denied he vastly exaggerated the behaviour of Liverpool fans after a police chief told him “drunken, ticketless” supporters were to blame for the Hillsborough disaster.

A structural engineer has denied he was among “a number of people” who were trying to distance themselves from knowing there were potential safety problems at Hillsborough before the 1989 disaster.

Jurors on the inquest into the 96 Hillsborough disaster deaths have stood at the exact site where most of the Liverpool fans who died in the tragedy lost their lives.

The jury at the Hillsborough inquests has been given a minute-by-minute countdown as the tragedy unfolded.

Hillsborough’s youngest victim would have been “very proud” of his cousin, the Liverpool and England captain Steven Gerrard, the inquest into the disaster heard today.

The world of soccer joined in unison with the people of Liverpool yesterday at a memorial service at Anfield to mark 25 years since the Hillsborough disaster claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool football fans.

Thousands of people have marked the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster at a memorial service in Anfield.

The “very many individual human tragedies” of the Hillsborough disaster have been laid bare in an emotionally-charged opening to the fresh inquests into the deaths of the 96 football fans who died.

Long-awaited fresh inquests into the deaths of the 96 people killed in the Hillsborough disaster will begin today.

The inquests into the deaths of 96 victims of the Hillsborough disaster will have a jury, the coroner ruled today.

The families of Hillsborough victims have welcomed the retirement of a top police officer who criticised Liverpool fans after the inquiry into tragedy.

British Prime Minister David Cameron’s apology and the findings of the Hillsborough Independent Panel have been welcomed by campaigners who have now called for the parties responsible for the disaster to be made accountable.

Sheffield Wednesday today offered an apology to the families who lost their loved ones in the Hillsborough disaster and welcomed the release of thousands of official documents relating to the tragedy.

The families of 96 Liverpool supporters killed in the Hillsborough tragedy will see thousands of official documents relating to the disaster for the first time.

A Facebook page which poked fun at the Hillsborough football tragedy is being investigated by police.

A Facebook page which mocked the Hillsborough football tragedy is being investigated by police in Britain.

The annual memorial service to mark the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster in which 96 Liverpool FC supporters died was held today.

BRITISH Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt apologised yesterday after appearing to suggest that fan unrest was to blame for the Hillsborough disaster.

Hundreds of official documents about the Hillsborough Disaster are to be made public for the first time after a request from the home secretary, the British Home Office has confirmed.

Liverpool will come to a standstill today to mark the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.

I HAVEN’T seen “The Damned United”. I have no intention of seeing the movie or of reading the book that provoked it. I distrust the mixture of ‘fact’ and fiction or, as its called, ‘faction’. Johnny Giles’ disparagement was quite enough for me.

Michel Platini has promised Liverpool that UEFA are keen to avoid forcing the club to play the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final on the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.

The Liverpool football team joined thousands of supporters at a memorial service today to mark the 15th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.

Everton Football Club has condemned the behaviour of fans who disrupted a tribute to victims of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.

Families of football fans killed in the Hillsborough disaster will send a message of condolence to the relatives of those involved in the South African soccer tragedy.

Families of the Hillsborough victims have denounced a six-figure compensation payment awarded to a police officer on duty on the day of the disaster.