became the focus of grief on Merseyside.

A carpet of flowers was laid over the pitch and a chain of football scarves stretched from the stadium, across the city's Stanley Park and to Goodison Park, home of local rivals Everton.

On the first anniversary the club unveiled its permanent memorial to those who died - a 10-tonne granite block inscribed with the names of the victims alongside an eternal flame.

Since then bereaved families, survivors, Liverpool players and managers have attended the annual service at the ground.

The service has been a very public show of remembrance - but also of the support shown to those affected by the disaster.

More recently it has also helped keep the bereaved families' campaign in the public eye.

Mrs Aspinall has also asked people to stop pledgingLondon has been battered by 50mph winds that have felled trees and caused travel chaos. Powerful gusts swept across the capital as the Met Office issued a yellow "be aware" weather alert for most of the country.

Theodor Geisel, “Dr Seuss”, was an interesting man. Most of his bestselling children’s books — The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, etc — were written in the Fifties. In October 1967, his wife of 40 years, Helen, committed suicide, partly because of her husband’s affair with the woman, Audrey Dimond, whom he went on to marry, in June 1968.

Seuss subsequently suffered writer’s block, until in 1970 the couple took a holiday to Africa. It was after watching elephants in the Serengeti that Seuss was inspired to write The