Liverpool councillors have unanimously backed a motion calling on retailers in the city to stop selling the Sun newspaper. At a council meeting in Liverpool town hall on Wednesday night, councillors backed a motion calling on shops to stop selling the paper, condemning it for publishing “blatant lies”. “For this reason we call on all retailers and vendors of newspapers in Liverpool to stop selling the S*n,” said the motion, which applauded the work by campaign group Total Eclipse of the Sun for working to “rid Liverpool of the paper”. MP Steve Rotheram, Labour’s candidate to be metro mayor of the Liverpool city region, welcomed the councillors’ move. The campaign has garnered impressive momentum and it’s pleasing to see organisations like Merseytravel, as well as businesses within the Liverpool city region, take a principled stance and reject the sale of the newspaper.”

Source: The Guardian September 15, 2016 10:17 UTC