the document - Hillsborough Independent Panel

THE HILLSBOROUGH INQUIRY
Press coverage of the disaster
at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield
on 15 April 1989
An inquiry by
The Press Council
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1989
THE PRESS COUNCIL
No. I S A L I S B U R Y S Q U A R E , L O N D O N , E C 4 Y 8AE
T e le p h o n e : 01-353 1248
M e m b e r s 1989
In d ep en d en t C h a irm a n
LOUIS B lO M -C O O PE R QC
V ic e -C h a irm a n
D. ENSOR OBE
N o m i n a t e d by T h e N e w s p a p e r P u b l i s h e r s A s s o c i a t i o n L t d
M . M O L l O Y ........................................................................................... ( M i r r o r G r o u p N e w sp a p e rs)
B. V i n e
........................................................................................... (D a ily M a il)
S. K U T T N E R ............................................................................................(N e w s o f the W o rld)
N o m i n a t e d b y T h e N e w s p a p e r S o c ie ty
D. ENSOR OBE
...............................................................................( C r o y d o n A d v e r tis e r G r o u p )
J. E v a n s
........................................................................................... ( I n te r n a tio n a l T h o m s o n O r g a n isa tio n )
C.T. BRANNJGAN
.............................................................................. (E s se x C o u n ty N e w s p a p e r s )
R . SMITH
N o m i n a t e d b y T h e S c o t tis h D a ily N e w s p a p e r S o c i e ty
............................................................................................(ex A b e r d e e n P re s s & J o u r n a l)
D .R . CA M PBELL
N o m i n a t e d b y t h e S c o tt is h N e w s p a p e r P u b l i s h e r s ’ A s s o c i a ti o n
’ ................................................................(W est I n d e p e n d e n t N e w sp a p e rs)
N o m i n a t e d b y P e r i o d i c a l P u b l i s h e r s A s s o c ia tio n L i m i t e d
J. C O P E M A N ........................................................................................... ( E M A P M a c L a r c n P u b lis h e r s )
M . RANDOLPH
...............................................................................( R e a d e r ’s D ig e st)
N o m in a te d by T h e G u ild o f B ritish N e w sp a p e r E d ito rs
........................... ’
........................................ ( R e e d M id la n d N e w sp a p e r s)
J. HA RDEMAN
O .C. E L L I O T T ............................................................................................(C o v e n tr y E v e n i n g T e le g r a p h )
C . BAINBR1DGE
A .H . THOM AS
N o m in a te d by T h e In s titu te o f J o u r n a lis ts
...............................................................................(T h e T im e s )
...............................................................................( fo r m e r ly B risto l E v e n i n g Post)
P u b l i c m e m b e r s s e le c te d b y t h e A p p o i n t m e n t s C o m m i s s i o n
M . A SHRAF BISM1L Ba BEd (H a lifa x )
R T HON D.W. BLEAKLEY CBE MA (C o . D o w n )
MRS. E. BLUMENAU BA (L o n d o n )
E.W. BRIGHT QPM (Kent)
PROF T.F. CARBERY OBE MS c DPA ( G la sg o w )
D r . R.D . C l a r k e m a (S u rre y )
A. DANICLS MA (L in c o ln )
M r s B. D a v ie s j p m b i m (N o ttin g h a m )
d r . P.L. H o l l i s m a f r Hisi s (N o rfo lk )
l.ADY K e n n e d y ( H a r r o g a te )
MRS A .E . KLEMZ MA SSc (B re n tw o o d )
R .F. MELI.O R (B ristol)
MRS E . MORTON JP DPA (L iv e r p o o l)
MRS P.E. ORMEROD MA JP ( L o n d o n )
J . R . P O R T E O U S M D S BD S ( N o r t h u m b e r l a n d )
P. PcrrTS JP ( M ilto n K ey n es)
P. STEPH EN SON (B risio l)
M RS S. WESTON ( D o r c h e s te r )
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C o m p lain ts S ecretary
W.T. FIELD
THE HILLSBOROUGH INQUIRY
Background
Britain's worst football crowd disaster happened on Saturday, 15
April 1989 when 95 people were killed or fatally injured, many of
them crushed to death, at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, at the FA
Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
There was massive press and broadcasting coverage of the
tragedy that evening and for the next two days, and extensive
coverage for the rest of that week of the aftermath of the tragedy and
public concern about the explanation of it and possible responsibility
for it.
On Monday 17 April the government announced that there would
be a public inquiry into the disaster by Lord Justice Taylor and two
assessors. The same day the Press Council announced that it would
hold a general inquiry into photographic coverage of the tragedy by
the press. The decision followed widespread and serious public
criticism of the publication of pictures of spectators trapped, injured
and dead, and of the alleged conduct of some photographers and other
journalists. This criticism and direct complaint to the Press Council
continued to grow. By 19 May the Council had received 349 written
complaints from a total of 3,651 signatories. Among them they named
35 newspapers and included 56 general complaints about the be­
haviour or contents of the media which did not name specific
newspapers.
The complaints went beyond criticism of photographic coverage
of the tragedy, and the Press Council broadened the scope of its
inquiry to embrace all press coverage.
As well as complaints from individual members of the public,
some of them relatives or friends of the dead or injured but others
unconnected with the tragedy, the Press Council received complaints
from many Members of Parliament on their own behalf or on behalf
of constituents. Among organisations which complained to the Coun­
cil were The Football Association, Liverpool City Council
Hillsborough Working Party, Sheffield Methodist District Synod,
and the Clergy Disaster Team of the Oldham Division of Greater
Manchester Police.
On 28 June the Home Office passed to the Press Council a
petition from the Merseyside Area Student Organisation with some
7,000 signatories protesting at one aspect of press coverage, an article
in The Sun. The petition had been forwarded to the Home Office by
Lord Justice Taylor's inquiry. Lord Justice Taylor also ordered the
West Midlands Police to make available to the Press Council all
evidence given to his inquiry which concerned the conduct or
coverage of the press. The Council is grateful.
Newspapers specifically identified in complaints to the Press
Council were:
The Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Star, Daily
Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun, The Times,
Today, Mail on Sunday, News o f the World, The Observer, The
People, Sunday Express, Sunday Mirror, SundayTelegraph, Sunday
Times, The Evening Standard, Bedfordshire on Sunday, Coventry
Evening Telegraph, Daily Record (Glasgow), East Anglian Daily
Times, Evening Echo (Basildon), Evening News (Edinburgh), Glas­
gow Herald, The Northern Echo (Darlington), Evening Herald
(Plymouth), The Scotsman, Shropshire Star, The Sunday Post, Eve­
ning Advertiser (Swindon), Wales on Sunday, Western Daily Press
(Bristol), and the Yorkshire Post.
In each case the editor was told of the complaint to enable him
or her to reply directly to the complainant, but all national newspaper
editors and editors of some regional newspapers which were not
referred to specifically in complaints were asked by the Press Council
for views on their own and other newspapers' approach to picture
coverage of the tragedy and their general views on press coverage of
disasters. The great majority responded, often in considerable and
helpful detail, for which the Council is grateful.
Although the Council studied and considered separately the
picture coverage of all national newspapers and many regional
newspapers, including all listed above, it decided as it was conduct­
ing a general inquiry not to make separate findings on each or to
identify the photographic coverage of individual newspapers except
as examples to indicate types of photographs on which it intends to
comment.
General principles
It is the job of newspapers to report news including tragedy and
horror and sometimes to awaken public conscience or determination
that tragedy shall not be repeated. There cannot be a comfortable or
pleasing way of doing that when those near to the events will be under
deep grief or emotional stress.
The Council accepts the assurance of many editors that they
considered carefully how far it was right to publish photographs
which might serve apublic interest by arousing concern and focussing
determination to avoid a similar tragedy but would also distress
survivors and the families and friends of those who were killed and
were likely to be offensive to other readers. The decision was hard in
very many cases: in most of them the Council believes editors were
justified in publishing the pictures they did.
The Council considered carefully, as it has done before, whether
colour reproduction made such a difference to the impact of pictures
that it might have been justifiable to publish some of them in black
and white but was tasteless or offensive to do so in colour. It decided
that in the case of these pictures and the circumstances of this tragedy
there was no ethical distinction to be drawn between colour and
monochromereproduction.
Similarly, it concluded that no distinction was warranted by
whether a particular picture was published on Page 1 or on an inside
page.
The Council decided that no distinction could properly be drawn
in this instance between newspapers which used certain pictures on
the day of the disaster, the next day in the Sunday newspapers, or on
any of the following days, though these were distinctions cogently
argued by some editors.
Specific complaints
More than thirty national and regional newspapers published
broad pictures, taken from a distance, showing a large section of the
crowd through the high steel fence, the front row crushed against it,
many of them recognisable and in attitudes of distress, pain and fear.
Inevitably such pictures will have distressed many who saw them:
there was no means of telling how many of those shown died or were
seriously injured. Nevertheless the Press Council believes that pub­
lication of these pictures was justifiable. They were horrific; they
portrayed an horrific event. They reported the event accurately and
brought home vividly the danger of a dense crowd under pressure
packed behind an immovable fence. These photographs showed the
horror of the tragedy without isolating in close-up individuals who
were facing death or serious injury. The serious public interest was
served by their publication, which was within the discretion of editors
despite the added distress it would cause.
In the Press Council's view the same cannot be said of a smaller
number of photographs which it has seen published in a few
newspapers. In these the focus was on a single individual or very
small group crushed against the fence, sometimes with features
cruelly distorted by its steel mesh. They showed graphically the terror
and in some cases the torture of the persons concerned in images of
which the mind cannot rid itself. Although it can be argued the public
interest would be served by their emphasis on the danger of crowd
and fence, in the Press Council's view in these pictures the intrusion
into personal agony and grief was too gross to be justifiable. The
Press Council concludes that these were pictures which editors ought
to have chosen not to publish, particularly as most newspapers had
available the general pictures which the Press Council believes they
were justified in using. In those circumstances to use intrusive
pictures of individuals as well as or instead of the general pictures
was to accentuate unacceptably intrusion into grief.
A third category of picture widely published showed single,
often clearly identifiable, individuals lying on the ground, being
treated, or being carried away. In some cases they appeared to be
dead, in some the caption implied that they were dead. Newspapers
are free to show the injured being treated and it is right that they
should, but editors should approach the possibility of picturing the
dead with great care.
There are rare occasions when a newspaper may justify publish­
ing an identifiable picture of a fatal casualty of an accident or incident
but this has to be judged on the circumstances of each case. Despite
the public nature of this disaster, there was no such justification here
forpublishing individual pictures ofmen or women who were known
or thought to be dead or dying. Their use was insensitive and the
decision of some editors to publish them was an error of judgement.
It was thoughtless of a few newspapers, some of them the subject
of separate complaint, to identify stories about the disaster by the use
ofastylisedlogoechoingapublishedpictureofafatal casualty. These
victims may have been identifiable to family or friends: in any event
to use such a picture for such a purpose was to trivialise death.
Conduct of photographers
Decisions about which pictures to publish lie with editors and
have been the subject of much criticism in public comment and
complaint to the Press Council, but there has been widespread
criticism, too, about the alleged conduct of photographers on the
scene.
These allegations cause the Press Council concern and should
cause newspapers concern, but they have been in general terms only.
The Council has received no evidence that enables it to identify any
particular photographer or journalist or the representatives of any
particular newspaper as behaving improperly.
There is, however, clear evidence that to people involved in the
disaster the behaviour of some photographers at the scene appeared
unhelpful or insensitive. There was serious public concern and even
anger at the impression that photographers were concentrating on
obtaining close-up pictures of those in danger and distress even at the
risk of hampering rescue work. It is understandable that this should
have been the perception but the role of a press photographer at any
incident however tragic is to take pictures of it, not to take part in it
- just as the role of a reporter is to write about what he sees, not to
become caught up in the event.
This could not relieve a journalist from the humane duty of
rendering aid to someone in serious peril if he were able to do so and
no one else could. Nor would any journalist argue that it should
relieve him of that obligation, but that is not usually the position at
major disasters of this type.
There the duty of the journalists on the scene is to record the
event without impeding rescue efforts, but they and their editors also
have another responsibility. They should be aware of the danger that
photographers going about their proper work of taking pictures of the
injured, dead or distressed may appear callous or insensitive to those
involved and by doing so add to their distress.
The duty of editors in the instructions they give and of photog­
raphers in the way they behave generally in covering major disasters
is to exercise the maximum possible care and understanding for the
feelings of all those involved.
On TRUTH
An article which gave particular offence to readers, including
the 7,000 who signed the Merseyside Area Student Organisation's
petition, occupied the front page of The Sun on 19 April four days
after the tragedy, headlined THE TRUTH. Its subsidiary headline
alleged' 'Some fans picked the pockets of victims. Some fans urinated
on the brave cops. Some fans beat up PC giving kiss of life." The
article and its headline provoked many protests to the Press Council,
some with multiple signatures, that it was offensive, distressing and
insensitive. Appearing as a news story, it reported serious allegations'1
about the behaviour of Liverpool fans by a named Member of
Parliament; by policemen, one of them named and three anonymous;
a named nearby resident, and an unnamed neighbour.
Although it said the named policeman stressed that only a small
minority of Liverpool fans behaved "so badly", the article was
generally one-sided, offering no other counter to the allegations it
included. Whether or not any of these allegations can be sustained,
the article was unbalanced and its general effect misleading. The
headline THE TRUTH was insensitive, provocative and unwar­
ranted. The Sun's own ombudsman declared that the article should
not have been published in the form in which it appeared. The Press
Council condemns its publication.
Although The Sun's article attracted particular criticism similar
allegations were reported, sometimes with a lack of sensitivity, in
other newspapers.
Comment articles
Three examples of another type of article which were the subject
of specific criticism to the Council were those by Edward Pearce and
Auberon Waugh in The Sunday Times mdThe Sunday Telegraph
respectively, and by Richard Littlejohn of the Evening Standard. All
three were clearly comment articles giving the writer's own view of
the events to which they referred. The Council has said as a point of
principle that columnists and observers are free to comment on affairs
and newspapers free to publish their comments, making clear that
this is what they are.
The freedom to comment embraces publication of deliberately
cha 1lenging and provocative views, but editors should weigh careful­
ly how far to exercise that freedom in the face of deep tragedy when
it may appear distasteful. National tragedy or disaster is not an
occasion for writers to exercise gratuitous provocation, but it was
within the discretion of the editors of the three newspapers to publish
the columnists' articles they did.
Cartoons
Three cartoons which gave offence to some readers were drawn
to the Council's attention. They were drawings by Gaskill in Today
comparing the price of stadium safety with the cost of a star player,
Mahood in The Daily Mail showing the FA Cup running over with
woe; and a black picture by Garland in The Independent o f a goal net
torn in skull-like holes.
Cartoons are not always intended to amuse or to poke fun. Artists
have often used them to make a sharp or bitter point and the Press
Council accepts that they were free to do so on this occasion.
* * * *
In the course of the Council's inquiry it was greatly assisted by
many of the letters from members of the public. It was also helped by
the ready response of editors in explaining the decisions they made.
The Press Council will consider whether it would be useful to publish
some of these in a record of the inquiry.
© C o p y r i g h t 1989
P u b li sh e d by T h e P r es s C o u n c i l, N o . 1 S a li s b u ry S q u a r e . L o n d o n E C 4 Y 8 A E
P rin te d in E n g l a n d by St aple s P r in te rs R o c h e s te r Lim it e d.
L o v e Lan e. R o c h e s te r. Kent.
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THE STARi Monday, July 31,1989
can feel
THE Press Council is right in its verdict that
publication of pictures from the disaster at
Hillsborough was generally correct, it is right
that the use of a few pictures was distasteful,
and it is right that one newspaper in particular
should be condemned as totally insensitive in
its treatment of a story subsequent to the
disaster.
The events of April 15, with 95 deaths, were
horrific and newspapers cannot but reflect
that. Pictures that showed the scene in general have to be acceptable, even if they are
disturbing.
Close-ups of the dead or dying, sometimes
with*their features agonisingly twisted by the
wire fencing, were wrong — and the Press
Counci I is right to condemn them.
And The Sun’s outrageous story four days
after the event that purported to tell 'the truth'
about the disaster was insensitive and is right­
ly condemned. The only saving grace is that
The Sun's own ombudsman also said it was
wrong and in the wake of the Press Council
inquiry the paper has at least accepted that it
was wrong.
No complaints
We take a particular pride in the fact The
Star does not come in for any criticism. The
Press Council considered 349 written com­
plaints, backed by 3,651 signatures against 35
different newspapers — but The Star was not
complained against by anyone.
Yet we are the newspaper on the spot. We
were the first newspaper to print initial details
of the tragedy on the Saturday afternoon, gave
further details in our Saturday evening sports'
paper the Green 'Un, and produced a special
edition of The Star on the Sunday.
In the subsequent weeks we devoted pages
to coverage of the disaster and how it
happened.
Readers’ judgment
We have been the newspaper at the centre
of the whole tragic episode. In those circum­
stances, not to get a single complaint against
us shows we did our job not just well, but with
the necessary sensitivity.
Considering we deployed some 40 staff on
the weekend of the disaster and in its aftermath, we can be proud of every one of them
and of our reputation for fairness. We can also
be proud of our readers who realised what we
had to do and why we did it.
Now we await the preliminary report from
the public inquiry into the disaster— believed
to be due out later this week. If Lord Justice
Taylor can come up with ideas on how such a
tragedy can be avoided in the future, he will
have done well.
■
THE STAR, Monday, July 31,1989
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[t o e NUMBER o f people
hit by salmonella outbreaks
Jin Chester, North Wales and
Ithe North East rose to more
Ithan 370 today as doctors in
South Yorkshire joined a
nationwide alert to identify
|any further cases.
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ority said that 152 suspected
cases had been reported in
North Wales with 106 con­
firmed. In Chester, there are
already 161 confirmed cases.
Two elderly people have
Idied.
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: Meanwhile the number of
;people affected in an out­
break in Northumberland
and around Consett, Co
jDurham, has risen to at
ileast 64.
A ll the victims in the
North East had been to one
of three functions and the
suspected source was cold
cooked meat which it has
been confirmed had been
supplied to all three func[tions by the same retailer.
Scientists are still check­
ing the type of salmonella
involved but there is so far
no link to that outbreak and
the epidemic in Chester and
North Wales, where cold
meat prepared by butchers
Joss William and Son of
Flint and distributed by As­
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campaign to improve condi­
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Canterbury offered the top
|job to the Rev Alan Davis,
team rector at Maltby for
the past nine years.
The 51-year-old will be
taking up the three-year
London-based post in Jan­
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already started by the
Archbishop’s Faith in the
City report.
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STRIKERS involved the
dispute at M eadowhall,
Sheffield, firm, Eversure
Textiles, received dismissal
notices today following their
snub to the management’s
back-to-work deadline.
Letters arrived on 68
strikers’ doormats this morn­
ing as managing director
Michael Rawson carried out
his threat to sack them all.
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did not report for
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work yesterday they would
be dismissed and new staff
taken on in their place. Two
returned to work.
Apology call
fotrar
SOUTH Yorkshire’s only
Tory MP, Irvine Patnick,
has been accused of a “gross
error of judgement” over
remarks he is alleged to have
made soon after the Hills­
borough disaster.
Democrat Dr Peter Gold,
who was defeated by Mr
Patnick in the Sheffield
Hallam seat in 1987, called
on the MP to make a public
apology for an article which
apeared in a national news­
paper.
The article, which made
allegations about the behav­
iour of Liverpool supporters,
Tory MP Irvine Patnick
was recently criticised by the
Press Council.
reserved his views for the
public inquiry.
Visited
Responding, Mr Patnick,
Dr Gold says, in a letter to
Mr Patnick, that he under­ who visited the Hillsborough
stands the “named MP” in ground within hours of the
the article was the member tragedy, this afternoon
for; Hallam, and that he accused Dr Gold of making
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SENIOR South Yorkshire
police chiefs competing for
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one of the force's top jobs
have all been snubbed — in
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favour of outsiders.
The four chief superintenf— d^nts have been told they
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will not be considered for
the £36,700 a year role as
assistant chief constable.
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Instead the hot-seat will
be filled by someone from
another force — a signifi­
cant blow in a constabulary
criticised for alleged leadership problem s after the
Hillsborough disaster.
The disappointed local
bobbies are Sheffield’s John
N e s b it, H e a d q u a r te r s ’
Donald Denton,
D o n c a s t e r ’s M ic h a e l
Thompson, and Barnsley’s
Brian Mole.
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Mr Nesbit is currently in
_ £
charge o f policing Hillsborough, taking over the job
from Mr Mole.
In September, The Star
revealed the police authority
had re-advertised the post in
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spite of ten seemingly-suitable applications.
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Speculation followed that
the authority was unhappy
because only one o f the
hopefuls had completed a
Home Office recommended
senior command course —
and he had only been pro­
m oted less th a n a year
earlier.
T o d a y , an a u th o r ity
spokesm an confirm ed a
short-list of five applicants
had now been drawn up,
none of them from the home
force.
I llllllll
III
Sun editor apologises
for Hillsborough story
, 11 .
........
Georgina Henry
and Owen Bowcott
R KELVIN MacKenzie,
the editor of the Sun,
yesterday made an un­
precedented public apology for
a story in his newspaper
following the Hillsborough di­
saster, which the Press Council
had described as unbalanced
and misleading.
Mr MacKenzie, who is well
known for rarely commenting
on articles which appear in the
Sun, said he had personally
made “rather a serious error”
in publishing a story headlined
“The Truth” four days after the
tragedy.
The front-page splash — the
only news story highlighted in
the Press Council report on
Hillsborough coverage — al­
leged that some fans picked the
pockets of victims, urinated on
the police, and beat up a police
officer giving the kiss of life. It
led to thousands of complaints
to the Press Council and people
in Liverpool boycotted the
newspaper.
The Press Council, whose
unanimous report mainly exon­
erates newspapers at large over
their use of photographs of the
disaster, called the Sun’s story
“insensitive, provocative and
unwarranted”.
/" Asked on Radio 4’s The World
iThis Weekend whether he ac­
_—,____
cepted this, Mr ___
MacKenzie
said
/he did. But he added that the
allegations^ in the story had
\b6en made nSTUytKe new§Ipapei bat by arT~Mt* ana a
/“namefl-s'emor Police fr'edera^
ItidififlEcial”
|\ ‘'"What we simply did was to
V
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1
Mr Kelvin MacKenzie:
‘I made a serious erjor’
report them, as did other news­
papers, including the Daily
Telegraph." he said, "i must
say that it was my decision —
and my decision alone — to do
that page one in that way, and I
made a rather serious error.”
Mr MacKenzie said that
“with hindsight” he thought
coverage by most newspapers,
including the Sun, was a mis­
take. He refused to accept that
his newspaper had a track re­
cord of causing offence, but
said he would now adopt a dif­
ferent attitude to disasters.
“We have taken on board not
only what has been said in this
report by the Press Council, but
far more importantly the moves
in Liverpool and the beliefs of
the Liverpool people who were,
l>rior to the way we covered
Hillsborough, one of our most
important areas of readership,”
he added.
Mr MacKenzie’s decision to
appear on The World This
Weekend has led to speculation
that the Sun’s proprietor, Mr
Rupert Murdoch, is determined
to ensure his tabloid editors are
shown to be more accountable
to public opinion.
But Mr Martin Dunn, the
Sun’s deputy editor, said last
night it was the newspaper’s
own decision. He denied reports
that the apology, published in
the Sun today, was personally
approved by Mr Murdoch.
The Press Council received
349 written complaints, about
press coverage of the disaster
in which 95 people died. The
complaints — most concerning
photographs — referred to 35
national and regional titles, in­
cluding the Guardian.
The council concluded that in
most cases editors were justi­
fied in publishing the pictures
they did.
“More than 30 national and
regional newspapers published
broad pictures, taken from a
distance,” it added.
“Publication of these pictures
was justifiable. They portrayed
a horrific event. These photo­
graphs showed the horror of
the tragedy, without isolating
in close-up individuals who
were facing death or serious
injury.”
But a smaller number of
close-up photographs published
in a few papers were an “intru­
sion into personal agony and
grief’ and were “too gross to be
justifiable”,the Press Council
said.
• The interim report on the
Hillsborough disaster is due to
be presented to the Home Office
this week, a spokesman said
last night.
U W S tfP o o u
S
k
P^. \
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1989
Why they a ll should resign
K8SS!
THE essence of the Interim Report
on the tragic events at Hills­
borough Football Ground on April
the policing o f the
15 last, is t h a t “..............................
semi p n a l a t Hillsborough broke
dawn’r, and th a t “ the mam reason
fo r the disaster was the fa ilu re of
police control” .
Speaking of the conduct of some
65 police icifficers giving oral
evidence at th e inquiry, the report
says “ that fo r the most part, the
quality o f th e ir evidence was in
inverse proportion to their rank” ,
and later “ . . . the senior officers in
command, were defensive and evasive
witnesses ■... B u t neither th e ir
handling o f problems on the day, nor
their account :in evidence showed the
qualities o f leadership to be expected
□ M t e r Wright
the tragedy at Hillsborough, into
new positions, and some of them
away from Sheffield.
Recently the most im portant
newspaper in South Yorkshire, The
Sheffield Star, said in its Editorial
of Monday, A ugust 7: "C h ie f
Constable, Peter Wright, has .tenderec1
of their rank.”
In the final paragraph of the
section of the report dealing with
the police (paragraph 285), it says
“It ts a m atter o f regret that at the
hearing, and in their submissions,
the South Yorkshire Police were not
prepared to concede they were in any
respect
at
fa u lt
in
what
his resignation. When members o f the
South Yorkshire Police Authority
meet on August 14, they should
occurred.”
It was against this background
th at the Chief Police Officer, Mr
Wright, took the sensible step of
tendering his resignation. One
must assume from (this that he
intended to resign.
In the meantime however, Mr
Wright has removed virtually every
senior officer under his command,
and who had any connection with
accept it.”
I completely agree. It us most
u n f o r t u n a t e t h a t w hen th e
committee did meet they '.decided
th at Mr Wright should keep'his job.
Niiltety-five people died in .'horrific
circumstances and hundreds were
injured, and the families of the
deceased have suffered unisery,
heartbreak and the sense of .acute
loss. Mr Wright owes it ito (them,
and to the dead, to resign.
If a P rim e M in iste r, a
commanding officer, or the leader
of a council had made a mistake
involving massive loss of life, it
would be accepted th a t th a t person
was responsible, and should <go.
Mlemmas of
m r nurses
R watching the main news on a g g i i i i e i i B s i B i B i i i i i i f i i m u i i a i i i i i i i u i i i i i i u i i i i B B i s u B u i B B i e B i i i g i u
a other might, which featured
ct th a t idle NHS face a shorttrainefl nurses, I felt 1 must
All the evidence shows that
proper planning for Hillsborough
was complacent and neglectful, and
for this Mr Wright must ta k e the
blame. The Hillsborough tragedy
need never have occurred :if Die and
the senior officers involved had
planned and carried out their work
. p ro p e rly .
:o y o u ._
} though I am a qualified
I am feeing unemployment
> the fiact that my ward is
I (yet an o th er cut). Since
tig nw draining — along with
nber «of my colleagues — I
ieen unable to gain a permaontraxS; This also applies to
other aiewly qualified nurses
hout th e hospitals in the
west.
is it ifiiat the Government is
ing an appeal, which is costUions, ito get trained nurses
into th e profession when
are aiurses facing the dole
mpocaijy contracts which can
withaasnonth’s notice?
l this unattractive dilemma
nder murses are leaving the
sion.
.
he moment I am working at
igton ^General Hospital and
tie dtile at the end of Sep-. Some of my friends are at
i Hospital and are in the
osition.
3
& address supplied.
re k & u s e
ril I attended the meeting at
/ Dock,-’held by Mr A. F. Pot£he Merseyside Development
ation, «nd inspected the toluai’o H o t i c a
a r tn
n oarV iu Viii
i
• • •
*..
. .
The Interim Report makes this
absolutely clear, and it is therefore
incumbent on Mr Wright to xesign
his post, regardless of tthe find
which the Police Committee came
t0 It would be helpful if the iPolice
Committee which took the decision
and whose blind loyalty 'outran
their capacity to think straight,
was to go also, and that new people
and a new Chief Police Officer,
untainted by th is shameful episode,
■shouldtake over.
Martin Flannecy MP, Sheffield, Hlllstsorough.
s 5 0 y e a rs ago
S*
m t f tr
□ A motorist’s dream
★ NOW that the Nalgo strike Is
over and the tunnels are starting to
charge again can anybody really be
In any doubt why 90% of the hold­
ups at the tunnel are caused?
It Is by the queuing for payment
and breakdowns of tne booths.
During the recent strike It has been
possible every day to drive straight
into the tunnel. Today, although It
Is still the holiday month of
no tunnel delays
the future which one would
normally only expect to use on a
very occasional basis.
Merseyside still needs help to
Dull Itself from recession. Surely
the removal of tunnel tolls would
be a quick way of boosting the
local economy. Why Is It that our
local MPs make so little protest on
this point?
Is It because they epena so
A v n O n tM l
AS wasr< to Vvo
be expected,
the police
were to blame for the Hillsborough
football disaster.
Apparently they were responsible
for the perimeter fencing which
blocked the way to safety. Let us be
honest and true and acknowledge
th e fact th a t without the fencing
t h e r e wo u l d h a v e b e e n no
Hillsborough disaster.
There have been far larger
tthrongs of people many tunes
Ibefore, yes, even a t football
snatches before the war, without
ithere being this kind of tragedy.
Hhe police can only be blamed for
THE INDEPENDENT Friday 1 September 1989
iv ^ a . cift.
•
Resignation
demanded
Dear Sir,
The essence of the interim report
on the tragic events at Hillsbor­
ough Football Ground, on 15
April last, is that
the policing of the semi-final at
Hillsborough broke down
and that
the main reason for the disaster was
the failure of police control.
Speaking of the conduct of
some 65 police officers, the report
says
for the most part, the quality of their
[oral] evidence [to the inquiry] was in
inverse proportion to their rank
and later
the seniot officers in command were
; defensive, and evasive witnesses . . .
£ But neither their handling of problems
on the day, nor their account in evidence showed the qualities of leader*'
' ship to be expected of their rank. g f
It was against this background
that the Chief Constable of South
Yorkshire, Peter Wright, took the
sensible step of tendering his res­
ignation. One must assume from
this that he intended to resign.
The Sheffield Star said in its edi­
torial of 7 August:
Chief Constable Peter Wright has ten­
dered his resignation. When members
of the South Yorkshire Police Author­
ity meet, on 14 August, they should ac­
cept it.
,
It is most unfortunate that, when
the committee did meet, they de" cided that Mr Wright should keep
his job.
It would appear, despite their
protestations to the contrary, that
the Police Committee and the
Chief Constable do not really ac­
cept the correctness of Lord Jus­
tice Taylor’s interim report. If this
is so, will they tell us who was re­
sponsible? The facts have to be
faced.
Yours sincerely,
MARTIN FLANNERY
MP for Sheffield Hillsborough
(Labour)
House of Commons
London, SW1
15 August
Hillsborough C.L.P.
The next meeting of the G.M.C. will be on Friday,
at 7.3 0 at the Town Hall.
Agenda
1.
Apologies
2.
Minutes of last meeting
3.
Matters arising
4.
New members
5.
Reports:
(a)
Executive
(b)
M.P.
(c)
Womens Section
(d)
Wards
6.
Resolutions
7.
Correspondence
8.
A.O.B.
0VVi i M c c f o u A -
n r^& e
Septemb
HILLSBOROUGH CONSTITUENCY IABOUR PARTY
Minutes of the meeting held in the Town Hall on Wednesday July
28th at 7.30 pm.
Peter Duff chaired the meeting.
1
Apologies -
list circulated
2
Minutes of the
record.
last ordinary meeting - accepted
3
as a true
Minutes
of the special
meeting
- accepted with one
amendment.
Record of voting, on Womens section, S.W.S.
child care resolution should read 11.
4
Matters Arising - there
available.
5
New members
C.G. Michael Hague T.G.W.U.
Brent Shilllito E.M.B.
Maurice Clark
A.E.U.
H
K Hopkins
S.W. Jeremy Green
is now
one sparevisitors
Unwaged
C.O.H.S.E.
St
Graham Battye
G.M.B.
Douglas Broomhead G.M.B.
Jane Dinelow
G.M.B.
Lawrence Rossington G.M.B.
Gillian French
Unwaged
James Lambert
I.S.T.C.
Grace Rudfoot
Unwaged
David Morley
Unwaged
W
Michael Clifford
Karen Wilkins
A.U.T.
C.P.S.A.
John Eyres
Gary Uttley
Approved
6
Resolutions
(a)
U.D.C. Road Plan - H
(b)
Community Education
2 amendments were made.
Passed unanimously.
Action - send to DLP
N.U.T.
N.U.St,
ticket
Amendment 1.
Add a point (3) to read "call for a report
back on the impact of local financial management on
Community Education provision”
Accepted
Amendment 2.
Amend point 1 to read "investigate these
allegations and take the necessary steps to ensure that the
colleges allocate resources so that they are able to
provide adult basic education at a similar level to
previous years" Passed 18 for, 7 against
Resolution passed as amended.
Action - send to Education
Working Party and Chair of Education.
Executive to come back with a proposal for a Constituency
meeting on Education.
(c)
Evershore Dispute. W.
Passed unanimously.
A £50 donation was approved.
(d)
Child Care Stocksbridge
2 amendments were made.
Amendment 1.
Add to paragraph three "Parents using
workplace child care provision will not be taxed as though
this were a perk for example like a company car." Accepted
Amendment 2.
Amend paragraph four to read "We demand that
Sheffield City Council both plan for the future by drawing
up a programme for comprehensive childcare provision in the
city based on an integrated service for community use and
provision for employees".
Accepted.
Resolution
NEL.
passed
as amended.
Action - Send to DLP
and
7
Reports.
(a)
M.P. Martin Flannery reported on the crisis in the Tory
Party and the cabinet reshuffle.
He also mentioned several
current industrial disputes and commented on the lack of
leadership being offered by the TUC and Labour Leadership.
(b)
DLP - Ordinary business at last DLP suspended to allow
discussion of Education.
Education Working Party members
and Councillors had prepared inputs on different areas of
provision, meeting then split into small groups.
Poll Tax - report back presented on financial implications
of different collection methods.
E.T. - no decision until September meeting.
(c)
Women's Section.
News letter submitted to Wards.
Womens Conference 11 November, Leeds Civil Hall.
Regional
8
Correspondence
(a) South Yorkshire Metropolitan County
delegate vacancy - nominations invited.
Labour
Party
-
(b) DLP - nominations for Council Panel need to be made by
September 4th.
Wards must contact DLP Secretary if they
cannot meet this deadline.
(c) Reselection - Regional Office have informed us that we
now need to fix a start date.
Lynne to organise this.
9
A .O .B .
(a)
Raffle - Proceeds £13
(b)
NALGO
Strike
Social.
University Union.
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everything is being^done in the
relevant departments as quickly
In the wake as possiblejm the light of the
Yours faithfully,
of tragedy inquiryr^—
Coun J. A. BUTLER
^airman, General Purposes Com-
in*"
u l i i c i w
recommendations from the official
Sir,—I am writing in response to a
report (August 8) on^smeetmg o£f
the General PurpeSes Committee
of Sheffield CjtjfCouncil at which
one of thp^uems on the agenda
relatediosafety of sports grounds
certificates and in particular the
jneissued to Sheffield Wednesday
Football Club. I am concerned
about some of the mislead
statements contained in thepei
and would like to reply to'Some of
the criticisms m a d e ./
First of all, the^afticle claimed
that counciUorg'TCfused to make
any decision^nd that the meeting
disintegrated. The fact is the
''did not disintegrate and
,
not make any decision
_ause that was impossible with
)written report in front of us at
■'niittee, Sheffield City Council,
Sheffield.
Sir,—In light of the conjiriued and
savage attacks on/the South
Yorkshire Police/following the
publication of the findings of Lord
Justice Tavjef, and appeals to the
Home Secretary over the continua­
tion iJKfflfice of the chief constable,
M r/reter Wright, it is perhaps
lely to consider the following
remarks made by DonaldSdunders
the week following/fne Hills­
borough disaster’
“Though th&^South Yorkshire
Police, the^Football Association,
the Sheffield Wednesday adtninistration-and stewards mavail have
made mistakes on Saturday afternpon, the basic cause of the
t h c l t S tc l§ )6
ster was tpe irresponsible
What we did have was a verbal behaviour ofxsome spectators.
report from council officers that Those of us who were at the Heysel
the written report, with recoijK' Stadium tragedy were obliged to
mendations from the officmKin- come to the same unpalatable
quiry by Lord Justice Tayldr, was conclusion”. — Yours faithfully,
being prepared as sooaffi possible
V. LUMB
and would be rgeray for the Thrybergh, Rotherham.
•
ui a matter _
committee to co;
>n be able to ‘ [Sir, — The essence of the inte:J f
of days. We
make dej' ions and take any' •report on the tragic events at
Hillsborough football ground on
needed.
urgent ai
f would finally like to stress that April 15, is that “the policing of the
account in evidence showed the
qualities of leadership to be ex­
pected of their rank”.
Vs in of*007-
semi-final at Hillsborough broke
down”, and that “the mam reason
for the disaster was the failure of
police control”.
Speaking of the conduct of some
65 police officers giving oral evi­
dence at the inquiry, the report
says, and I quote, “that for the
most part the quality of their
evidence was in inverse proportion
to their rank”, and later “...the
senior officers in command were
defensive and evasive witnesses...But neither their handling
of problems on the day nor their
In the final paragraph of the
section of the report dealing with
the police (paragraph 285) it says
“It is a matter of regret that at the
hearing and in their submissions
the South Yorkshire Police were
not prepared to concede they were
in any respect at fault in what
occurred”.
It was against this background
that the chief police officer, Mr
Wright, took the sensible step of
tendering his resignation. One
must assume from this that he
intended to resign. In the mean­
time, however, Mr Wright has
removed virtually every senior
officer under his command and
who had any connection with the
tragedy at Hillsborough, into new
positions, and some of them away
from Sheffield.
It is most unfortunate that when
the police committee did meet they
decided that Mr Wright should
keep his job.
Ninety five people died in horri­
fic circumstances and hundreds
were injured, and the families of
the deceased have suffered misery,
heartbreak and the sense of acute
loss. Mr Wright owes it to them and
to the dead to resign.
If a Prime Minister, a command­
ing officer or the leader ofa council
had made a mistake involving
massive loss of life, it would be
accepted that the person was
responsible and should go.
The Hillsborough tragedy need
never have occurred if Mr Wright
and the senior officers involved
had planned and carried out their
work properly. The interim report
makes this absolutely clear and it
is therefore incumbent on Mr
Wright to resign his post, regard­
less of the finding which the police
committee came to on August
14.
It would be helpful if the police
committee which took the decision
was to go also and that new people
and a new chief police officer
untainted by this shameful epi­
sode should take over.
It would appear despite their
protestations to the contrary, that
the police committee and the chief
police officer do not really accept
the correctness of Lord Justice
Taylor’s interim report. If this is
so, will they kindly tell us who was
responsible? — Yours faithfully,
MARTIN FLANNERY, MP
Sheffield, Hillsborough.
Waste away
Sir —I bejiewthe disposai'of toxic
wastej*5quires a wider/donsideratioir than it is receiving at
resent.
/
/
The Junior Environment Minis­
ter says: “I axnnot convinced that
turning oup'oacks on the .waste is
necessarily the environmentally
— —
r
By Bob Westerdale, Chief Reporter
SOUTH Yorkshire Police Authority is
to investigate allegations that its chief
co n sta b le tried to influence next
m onth’s inquest verdicts on H ills­
borough disaster victims.
,
A special meeting will be staged this month to analayse
his remarks in an article in The Star on February 5, when
his retirement was announced.
;
Mr Wright said he could not come to terms with Lord
Taylor’s finding that some semi-final fans had been drink­
ing, but that alcohol played no role in the events.;
• More evidence would be put before the coroner which
may put a different com­
plexion on the disaster, he
said.
The story infuriated busi­
nessm an Trevor Hicks,
whose two daughters were
among the 95 dead.
His Complaint says Mr
Wright’s “disgraceful’’ con­
duct could affect inquest im­
partiality and '...distort the
course of justice.
The allegations suggest
that Mr Wright, who retires
on May 1, may have abused
his privileged position to
obtain confidential inform*
a tio n a b o u t le v e ls o f
drinking.
Grief
Today, coroner Stefan
Popper denied a suggestion
been passed io South York
shire police.
Merseyside Ml* David Al­
ton is upset the drinking
issue has raised its head
again, saying: “If all this is
going t ^ ^ ; trigg ed , «#p
again in airattempt to blame
the victims and other fans, it
will cause quite unnecessary
grief for many families."
Mr Hicks commented: “I
know sp e cifica lly that
neither of itty daughters had
had anything to drink ajid I
fully agree with Taylor’s
view that drink was not a
major factor.”
Police chief Peter Wright
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m e e tin g s
had
p re p a re d a d e ta ile d re p o rt o f ev e n ts w h ic h th e y
lo d g e d w ith th e G roup S e c re ta ry fo r r e te n tio n in
th e
L ab ou r
G roup
s .
They
th e n re p o rte d
C o n s ta b le to te n d e r
F o llo w in g
in d e ta il on e v en ts fo llo w in g th e o ffe r o f
h is re s ig n a tio n in th e lig h t o f th e T a y lo r
c o n s id e ra b le
d is c u s s io n ,
1)
T h a t we re c e iv e and a c c e p t
and W h itfie ld , and th e y be
L ab ou r G roup.
2)
T h a t
L ab o u
th is
s itu a
3)
T h a t
a
l e t t e r
be se n t
(w ith c o p ie s to th e
L ead
G roups
and
an
a p p ro p ri
Shadow Home S e c re ta ry ) e x
we
r
ite
tio
i t
was
th e C h ie f
R e p o rt.
ag re ed :
th e re p o rt g iv e n
asked to p re s e n t
by C o u n c illo rs
th e same re p o r t
C rom ar
to th e
f u lly s u p p o rt th e a c tio n s th e y to o k
b o th
b e fo re
and
a t
G roup
and f u l l m e e tin g s o f th e S .Y . P o lic e A u th o r ity w hen
m was u n d er c o n s id e ra tio n , and we re c o g n is e th e
d if f i c u l t
n in w h ic h th e y w ere p la c e d .
to th e C h a ir o f th e S .Y . P o lic e A u th o r ity
ers
o f
B a rn s le y
and
D o n c a s te r
Labour
a te
b r i e f i n g be g iv e n to o u r MPs an d th e
p re s s in g :
a)
th e f u l l s u p p o rt o f th e S h e ffie ld L a b o u r G roup fo r th e
a c tio n s o f o u r re p re s e n ta tiv e s on th e P o lic e A u th o rity ;
b)
extrem e d is s a tis fa c tio n w ith th e w ay th is m a tte r had b een
d e a lt w ith by th e P o lic e A u th o rity ,
in c lu d in g p u b lic s t a t e ­
m ents by th e C h a ir in ad vance o f c o n s id e ra tio n by th e L ab o u r
G ro u p ;
c)
re q u e s tin g th a t th e is su es ra is e d by o u r re p re s e n ta tiv e s
be f u lly and p ro p e rly d e a lt w ith by th e P o lic e A u th o rity .
4)
T h a t
a
l e t t e r
be
s e n t
e x p re s s in g
co n cern
and
b e in g made by t h e ir re p re s
S h e f f ie ld L a b o u r m em bers"
th e M u n ic ip a l J o u rn a l by o
5)
T h a t th e C h ie f W h ip
d r a ft "code o f u n d e r
and d is c ip lin e on J o
m em bers
on
J o in t B
B oroughs m e e tin g .
6)
s
a
a
b
7)
and
s ta n
in t
o ard
to
re q u
e n ta
and
ne o
th e
L e a d e r
e s tin g
c la r
tiv e s ab o u t
th e r e s p o n s
f th e ir C h ie
o f
L iv e rp o o l
C o u n c il
if ic a t io n
o f sta te m e n ts
th e "p ro p er resp on se
o f
ib ility fo r an a r t ic le in
f O ffic e rs .
G roup S e c re ta ry be re q u e s te d to p re
d in g " r e la tin g to is s u e s o f r e s p o n
B o ard s, i n i t i a l l y
fo r
c o n s u lta tio
s, and th e n fo r c o n s id e ra tio n by th
T h at a "P ress
S tate m en t"
be p re p a re d ,
fo r
use
i f
n e c e s s a ry ,
ta tin g th a t th e S h e ffie ld re p re s e n ta tiv e s on th e P o lic e A u th o rity
re n o t y e t s a tis fie d th a t
th e
is su es
w h ic h
th e y
have
ra is e d
r is in g fro m th e T a y lo r R e p o rt have been s a t is f a c to r ily d e a lt w ith
y th e P o lic e A u th o r ity .
T h a t
fo llo w in g
th e
o u tlin e d
in
3)
and
c o n s id e ra tio n g iv e n to
th e J o in t B oards s p e c i
re c e ip t o f
resp on ses
to
th e
in it ia t iv e s
5)
ab o ve,
th e re
may
need
to be fu rth e r
o u r r e la tio n s w ith S .Y o rks g e n e ra lly and on
f ic a lly .
A c tio n :
C.
C . W a la y a t.
A . W ig fie ld
U n d er
a c tio n
because
i t w o u l
"b u g g in
B e tts , J . C rom ar.
R. W h itfie ld , H. K n ig h t
th e
same
agenda
ite m , q u e s tio n s w ere ra is e d ab o ut d is c ip lin a r y
ta k e n fo llo w in g
"b u g g in g
o f
te le p h o n e s ".
I t
was
n o te d
th a t
th e in d iv id u a l case was s t i l l s u b je c t to th e a p p e a ls p ro c e d u re ,
d be in a p p ro p ria te to d is c u s s th a t,
b u t
th e
g e n e ra l
is s u e
o f
g o f te le p h o n e s " was one th a t ra is e d c o n s id e ra b le co n cern .
F o llo w in g
d is c u s s io n ,
i t was a g re e d th a t a l e t t e r
o f th e P o lic e A u th o r ity re q u e s tin g th a t th e g e n e ra l
th e n e x t agenda o f th e P o lic e A u th o r ity .
A c tio n :
C .
C . W a la y a t,
B O U N D A R IE S
C O M M IS S IO N
C o u n c illo r
W ig f
C o m m is s io n c o n c e
and
a c tio n th a t
m o rn in g , p a r t ic u
These
p a re
a
s ib ility
n
w ith
e J o in t
w ere
ie
rn
h
la
(C o u n c illo r
A .
be sent to th e C h a ir
is s u e be
p la c e d
on
B e tts , J. C rom ar,
R. W h itfie ld
W ig fie ld )
ld
re p o rte d on th e la t e s t p ro p o s a ls o f th e B o u n d a rie s
in g th e S h e ffie ld /R o th e rh a m b ou n dary and th e resp on ses
ad b een a g re e d by th e S u b -C o m m itte e on B o u n d a rie s th a t
r ly w ith re s p e c t to T in s le y and O rg rea ve .
s u p p o rte d
by
th e
E x e c u tiv e .
A c tio n :
A .
W ig fie ld