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Jacqui Smith said hundreds of official documents - currently subject to the 30-year-rule, effectively keeping them under lock and key for another decade - could be made public 10 years early, following top-level discussions.

Ninety-six Liverpool supporters died in a crush at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium on April 15 1989 where their team was to meet Nottingham Forest in an FA Cup semi final.

Trevor Hicks, of the Hillsborough Families Support Group, said he was pleased at the news, adding: "It is vital that these files are released in full and not sanitised in any way."

In a statement, the Home Secretary said: "The Government is committed to helping those who lost loved ones in the Hillsborough tragedy.

"That is why I will be working with colleagues in the Ministry of Justice, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and the Attorney General's Office to put out any information that exists that could shed light on the disaster and its aftermath in the public domain as soon as possible."

The 20th anniversary of the tragedy, Britain's worst sporting disaster, was marked with memorial services in all three cities last Wednesday.

The victims' families have been fighting for further inquiries into the deaths.

They believe a Major Incident Plan was never initiated by South Yorkshire Police and fans at the Leppings Lane end were denied emergency medical attention.

The families also dispute the findings of the single inquest into all 96 deaths, which ruled the victims were all dead, or brain dead, by 3.15pm and which subsequently recorded a verdict of accidental death.