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# stardust pen portraits

May

May 2023

'Insult' to victims how Stardust tragedy was 'pushed under the carpet', inquest hears

48 people lost their lives in the fire at the Stardust Ballroom on February 14, 1981.

3.8k

May 17th 2023, 5:18 PM

'The dead cannot cry out for justice': State has failed families of Stardust victims, inquest hears

48 people lost their lives in the fire at the Stardust Ballroom on February 14, 1981.

5.1k

May 11th 2023, 5:12 PM

Woman whose parents died in the Stardust 'grew up in the shadow of disaster', inquest hears

48 people lost their lives in the fire at the Stardust Ballroom on 14 February, 1981.

8.6k

May 9th 2023, 6:11 PM