HAS RESEARCH LOST its lustre? With Internet search engines like Google, anyone can do research; one key word generates a world of options. A neophyte can enter an office with a folder full of freshly-printed pages like an intellectual giant, regaling a room with a mountain of mesmerising facts. But it was no Internet search which excised the truth about the Hillsborough Disaster. On that fateful day in April 1989, 96 people lost their lives. Now, 26 years later, what really happened is being uncovered through new inquests into the deaths and unrelenting research was a catalyst for this. Free article