Labour Party Conference (UK) "In Liverpool, we learnt a long time ago what to do. I suggest the rest of the country should do exactly the same thing"; in reference to the hostility felt in Liverpool towards "The Sun" newspaper following its controversial allegations about the behaviour of Liverpool FC supporters during the Hillsborough disaster 20 years earlier. In the Prime Ministers Keynote Address Gordon Brown listed no fewer than twenty Labour Party achievements since 1997 and received an early standing ovation. The address would be his last as Prime Minister and for the Party would be their thirteenth and last party conference in
Liverpool Echo Alastair Machray, who has previously edited the Welsh edition of the "Daily Post". In 1879 the "Liverpool Echo" was published as a cheaper sister paper to the "Liverpool Daily Post". From its inception until 1917 the newspaper cost a halfpenny. It is now 80p Monday to Friday, £1.20 on Saturday and 70p on Sunday. The limited company expanded internationally and in 1985 was restructured as Trinity Holdings Plc. The two original newspapers had just previously been re-launched in tabloid format. A special Sunday edition of the "Echo" was published on 16 April 1989, for reporting on the previous day's Hillsborough