[2] The newspaper which subsequently became The Star began as the Sheffield Evening Telegraph,[3] the first edition of which was published on 7 June 1887.

In April 1989, the newspaper published false reports about the Hillsborough disaster which occurred in the city and in which 97 Liverpool F.C.

fans were fatally injured at an FA Cup semi-final tie.

These claims were met with outrage by Liverpool fans, particularly when it was established that police loss of crowd control and the presence of perimeter fencing between the stands and the pitch were the key factors in the tragedy, although The Sun caused the most offence for its reporting on the event.

[7] James Mitchinson, Jeremy Clifford and John Furbisher held the position previously after Alan Powell retired in 2010.