There have been renewed calls to boycott The Sun newspaper after England cricketer Ben Stokes described a front-page article about a family tragedy 31 years ago as “disgusting” and “immoral”.
“Today the Sun has seen fit to publish extremely painful, sensitive and personal details concerning events in the private lives of my family, going back more than 31 years,” he wrote on Twitter, after the tabloid’s revealed that his half-brother and sister were shot dead in 1988.
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