WIRRAL Council is expected to back a campaign encouraging retailers across the borough to stop selling The Sun newspaper.

At a meeting of the full council next Monday a notice of motion is scheduled to be debated which points out the tabloid published blatant lies about the Hillsborough disaster.

It says: "On April 15, 1989 ,a disaster at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield led, ultimately, to the deaths of 96 innocent fans who had left home that morning to watch a football match.

"Due to crowd control mis-management those fans, whose ages ranged from 10 to 67, had the life crushed out of them.

"Contrary to the facts the S*n published a front page story with the banner headline ‘The Truth’ which contained blatant lies."

The call from Labour councillor Ron Abbey adds: “For this reason we ask all retailers and vendors of newspapers to stop selling the S*n.

“We applaud the group called ‘The Total Eclipse of the S*n’ for their endeavours to rid our city region of this newspaper.”

The paper has been widely boycotted in Merseyside because of its accusations following the disaster.

Liverpool councillors unanimously backed a similar motion to stop selling The Sun in September.

The Society of Editors said the move was "stretching towards censorship."

But other local authorities are following the city's lead with Derry and Strabane District Council recently agreeing a motion also asking local newsagents to stop selling the title.

All 96 fans who died as a result of a crush at Hillsborough were unlawfully killed, inquests concluded in April.

Twelve fans from Wirral and Ellesmere Port lost their lives in the tragedy.