‘Times’ newspaper rapped for keeping Hillsborough off front page

The Times newspaper has said it “made a mistake” by not including coverage of the Hillsborough inquests on the front page of its first edition.

The paper faced criticism, along with its sister paper The Sun, for not featuring on its front page the story that an inquest jury had ruled that 96 Liverpool fans who died in the 1989 tragedy were unlawfully killed.

The Guardian reported that mutiny by the Times’ sports desk and an overwhelmingly negative reaction on social media prompted the paper to change its front page on Tuesday night