Former editor of The Sun, Kelvin MacKenzie has stirred-up a new Hillsborough storm by claiming that the vile allegations published about Liverpool fans came from the city itself.
The charge has caused a new furore in Liverpool where journalists demanded that MacKenzie should withdraw the new allegations.
He made the claim in the BBC 2 TV programme seeking to justify the infamous 1989 front page story.
In the article under the headline "Hillsborough: The Truth" The Sun claimed that emergency services has reported Reds fans stole from the dead and urinate on rescue workers.
In the BBC 2 "The Daily Politics" show MacKenzie sought to pin the blame for the article on LIVERPOOL saying that it emanated from a "Liverpool News Agency".
Interviewed by Andrew Neil, MacKenzie said: "That story came from a Liverpool news agency and Liverpool journalists.
"Every newspaper carried that news story as you well know, I'm not listening to that.
"It was written by Liverpool Journalists.
Asked by former Sunday Times Editor Neil if he had any regrets or remorse about some of things he did as as a tabloid news editor, e said: "Yes, probably, I do yes.
"If I could revisit Hillsborough, certainly I would do it in a different way.
"I would do it in the way that every other newspaper did it, which was basically that they ran the story and said "big fury over", and I wish I had done that, yes".
The 1989 tragedy at Sheffield Wednesday's ground was British football's worst disaster and plunged the city of Liverpool into mourning.
Under MacKenzie The Sun's coverage of the disaster brought calls for his resignation.
Sales of the paper plummeted in the Merseyside area and have never recovered. He was later required by Rupert Murdoch to apologise.
That hollow apology has never been accepted in Liverpool and there have been recent calls in parliament for an official investigation to establish the source of the oiginal story.
Chris Johnson, Managing Director of the Liverpool's main freelance news agency, Mercury Press, said MacKenzie's new allegations were untrue.
Chris Johnson said: "It is ludicrous for Kelvin McKenzie to try to shift the blame for his own blunders to a 'Liverpool news agency'.
"The lies printed in The Sun did not come from Mercury Press. I would be shocked an appalled if they came from any other Liverpool freelance journalist.
"It is just incredible and preposterous to suggest the story originated in Liverpool. If it had done I'm sure that would have come-out years ago.
"Now MacKenzie says if he had his time over he would do the story differently.
"But at the same time he is trying to blame Liverpool people for his own mistake and that is adding insult to injury.
"He should withdraw this new allegation. I am consulting lawyers and we will be seeking an apology from him on behalf of Liverpool journalists."
Paul Morgan, Liverpool around 5 months, 2 weeks ago