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Liverpool to fall silent to mark 35 years since Hillsborough disaster

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Liverpool is to fall silent 35 years on from the Hillsborough disaster.

Ninety-seven men, women and children died in the tragedy at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on April 15 1989.

On Monday at 3.06pm – the time the match was stopped – a minute’s

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