Protesters and families that have lost their loved ones have marched through London to demand an Inquiry into the deaths of 96 Liverpool supporters at the Hillsborogh disaster.
Over four thousand Liverpool fans delivered a petition containing more than 30,000 names to Downing Street, to see if criminal proceedings should be launched in relation to the tragedy.
The March4Justice group are calling for a police investigation into the events of 15 April 1989, along with the release of some 300 boxes of information about the tradegy.
The 96 fans were crushed to death in the Leppings Lane end of the Sheffield stadium during Liverpool's FA Cup semi-final with Nottingham Forest.
South Yorkshire Police opened a large exit gate which forced too many Liverpool fans on to the terrace, leaving the fans inside trapped between people entering the ground and the metal fences at the front of the stand.
It remains Britain's worst ever sporting tradegy.
Families of the victims have continued a two-decade long campaign for a full inquiry into the disaster.
Earlier this year, former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith asked South Yorkshire Police to release the 300 boxes of information it holds and which could be kept from the public for another 10 years.
And calls for a further investigation were backed by the former Culture Secretary Andy Burnham, who was heckled at the Anfield when the club marked the 20th anniversary.
Campaigner Jenny Hicks, who lost her two daughters in the tragedy, said it was time that "someone took responsibility".
Victim's mother Mararet Aspinall, who also marched on Downing Street, said :' I hope the Prime Minister is listening to us. We have waited 20 years, don't make us wait any longer.'
The organiser of the March4Justice, Barry Thompson, said: "Alan Johnson is the new Home Secretary and Andy Burnham is the Health Secretary - these people have their own goals and aims and not necessarily those of their predecessors.'
"We want to reaffirm that the government still has an obligation to the families of the 96, the fans, the club and the city of Liverpool as a whole."
'There needs to be an inquiry to assertain what is the truth.'
The petition will be handed in to 10 Downing Street by March4Justice from five relatives of the dead and one survivor, Steve Hart.
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