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This is how the grooming scandal is being weaponised – and this is what Starmer must do

There is a nagging sense that justice still has not been done. At a Reform rally, I watched Nigel Farage exploit that, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

Andy Burnham defends Greater Manchester inquiry into grooming gangs

The Mayor of Greater Manchester commissioned an independent review in 2017 to consider allegations made in BBC documentary The Betrayed Girls.

Evening Standard

Elon Musk’s attacks on Jess Phillips a ‘disgraceful smear’, Streeting says

The billionaire has criticised the Labour Government’s handing of child sexual exploitation.

Evening Standard

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Reform UK would launch grooming gangs inquiry if elected, chairman says

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been criticised by Elon Musk over the issue.

Evening Standard

Will there be a new grooming gangs inquiry and what did the previous one find?

Labour government facing pressure over its response to grooming gangs

The Independent UK

Musk accused of ‘politicising’ rape of young girls in UK to attack Starmer

Ex-health worker who exposed paedophile ring says billionaire’s triggering of row ignores plight of survivors

The Guardian - UK

Why are Elon Musk and Kemi Badenoch calling for a grooming scandal inquiry and why is Labour rejecting it?

The background to the inquiries that have been done and why the Home Office Minister has refused calls for a fresh investigation into historic child sexual abuse

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Elon Musk grooming attacks ‘misjudged and misinformed’, Wes Streeting says

The Health Secretary offered an olive branch to tech billionaire Mr Musk, urging him to work with the UK Government to tackle online child abuse.

Evening Standard

Ministers hit back at Elon Musk as tech billionaire steps up attack on Keir Starmer over grooming gangs

Health minister Andrew Gwynne said the Tesla tycoon should focus on US politics as row over inquiry intensifies

Evening Standard

Elon Musk claims King should dissolve Parliament in fresh attack on Starmer

Tech billionaire continues social media criticism of PM over handling of historic child abuse in Oldham

The Independent UK

Elon Musk calls on King to dissolve Parliament in latest attack on UK Government

ELON Musk has continued his criticism of the Government, calling on the King to step in and dissolve Parliament...

The National (Scotland)

Elon Musk calls on King to dissolve Parliament over grooming gangs

The tech billionaire has continued his social media criticism of Sir Keir Starmer for the Government’s handling of the UK’s ‘rape gangs scandal’.

Evening Standard

Elon Musk Says Labour Minister Jess Phillips Should Face Prison Over Grooming Gang Inquiry Block

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that Jess Phillips, a Labour Home Office minister, deserves to be in prison after it was reported that she blocked requests for a public inquiry into sexual grooming gangs in Oldham.

International Business Times UK

Ex-chief prosecutor rejects Musk’s calls for new child abuse inquiry

Nazir Afzal and police whistleblower Maggie Oliver say previous lengthy inquiries were not acted upon

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Musk attacks Starmer as Badenoch calls for grooming gangs inquiry

Tesla boss Elon Musk issued a series of attacks on Sir Keir Starmer as the Tories called for a national inquiry into grooming gangs

Evening Standard

Badenoch calls for inquiry into ‘rape gang scandal’ as Oldham probe denied

The Conservative Party leader made the call in a post on X and argued that a public inquiry into organised grooming gangs is ‘long overdue’.

The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk’s calls for Tommy Robinson release anger Labour MPs

Billionaire ally of Donald Trump also accuses Keir Starmer on X of failing to prosecute child rapists in Oldham

The Conversation

Joy: the story of IVF shows how women’s health and scientific contributions haven’t been taken seriously

Watching the Netflix film Joy has been a hugely emotional experience for me. The film is the story of the scientific endeavour to figure out in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and the first baby to be born this way, Louise Joy Brown on 25 July 1978 at Oldham General Hospital in Manchester.

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Police officer jailed for nine years after sexually touching girl while on duty

Dean Dempster, of Greater Manchester Police, assaulted the child while on duty in Oldham in December last year

The Guardian - UK

Dinner lady congratulated by Jamie Oliver after 40 years at Oldham school

Alison Hopkinson says school meals are now healthier, but children’s favourite dish at St Mary’s hasn’t changed

Evening Standard

Oldham mass grave: 300 bodies of babies and children found

Up until the mid-1980s, many parents of stillborn babies and babies who died shortly after birth were not told what happened to their child's body

The Independent UK

More than 300 bodies including babies and children found in mass grave in Oldham

The discovery was made by a woman who was looking for her twin brothers who died in 1962

The Guardian - UK

Oldham Coliseum theatre saved from closure

Oldham council pledges £10m to refurbish theatre after campaign led by actor Julie Hesmondhalgh

The Guardian - UK

Key points as local election results show major Tory losses

With almost all council elections declared, Conservatives are on course to lose up to 500 seats

The Guardian - UK

Police hunt for man, 25, after fatal stabbing of woman in Bradford

Police appeal for any sightings of Habibur Masum, from Oldham, after woman with pram was attacked on Saturday

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