Daily Mirror – Victory for truth and justice
The government plans to bring in a “Hillsborough law” to stop state cover-ups denying people justice, says the Daily Mirror.
Elsewhere, an injured Nick Knowles and an exclusive interview with Coronation Street’s Sue makes the front splash.
Keir Starmer vows to bring in Hillsborough Law to stop cover-ups and protect victims
Keir Starmer will promise to introduce a new law to prevent cover-ups by the state before the next anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.
Speaking at Labour’s conference in Liverpool, the PM will confirm that the new legislation will be brought to Parliament by April. Known as Hillsborough Law, it will give victims of injustice greater power to take on the state, creating a legal duty of candour for public servants such as police officers.
It comes after years of campaigning by the families of the 97 people who died at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield. The families spent decades fighting for justice for their loved ones after police falsely blamed Liverpool fans for the disaster.
The new law aims to help victims in David and Goliath-style battles for justice such as the Post Office scandal, the Infected Blood disaster and the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
Coronation Street star opens up on ‘tragic’ teenage years and pregnancy with man twice her age
On the cobbles of Coronation Street Eileen Grimshaw is known as a straight-talker who doesn’t suffer fools gladly. Whether she’s brawling in the street with Gail Platt or putting people in their place in the Rovers Return, it takes a brave person to cross her.
But as actress Sue Cleaver prepares to return to the Street after a summer on the theatre stage, she’s opened up about her hidden fears – revealing she used to be too terrified to even speak to her fans because of her own insecurities.
“For quite a few years, if somebody came up to me in the street, the inside of my stomach muscles would tense up and I’d be thinking: ‘Oh God, don’t come over. Don’t come over. Don’t come over,’” Sue confesses. “It absolutely terrified me when people did. I’d be thinking: ‘I’ve got nothing to offer you. I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what to do.’ It was fear, pure and simple. I don’t think I handled it well at all. My confident exterior was paper-thin.”
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Light at the end of this tunnel” – Tuesday’s front pages continue their coverage of the Labour Party conference taking place this week, the first party conference in power in more than 15 years.
Some newspapers cover Rachel Reeves’s speech yesterday, as the chancellor promised no return to austerity and laid out a more optimistic view of the UK economy. Many newspapers look ahead to the speech by PM Sir Keir Starmer, who will speak at the conference in Liverpool today.
Elsewhere, there is coverage of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East with many of the front pages featuring images of Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon. Many papers fret the region is on the brink of an all-out war.