Hillsborough

The day Hillsborough happened I was Chair of the British Youth Council, and our twice yearly council meeting was taking place in Sorby Hall, Sheffield Uni. The organisation that I had 'graduated' from to become Chair of BYC was Knowsley Youth Council, and a couple of their delegation had, understandably, skipped the boring business of Council to go the match. During the afternoon break, our attention was drawn to a TV that was showing the breaking news, and It was really hard to know what to do. Continue with business, when some of our number are missing? It was tough, but that is what we decided. Some time later our two colleagues arrived back, devastated by what they had seen. They collected their belongings and headed home to Merseyside.