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The Yorkshire Golf Club That Helped To Produce The 2016 Masters Champion

Jeremy Ellwood returns to the South Yorkshire club where Danny Willett played his golf as a teenager to see the fruits of recent course improvement works

Golf Monthly

Woman arrested on suspicion of man’s murder at Tenerife hotel

Friends in Rotherham pay tribute to Russell Watts as police appeal for information

The Independent UK

Rotherham council accused of ignoring ‘flag terror’ with £500 grants for St George’s and union flags

Labour council says flags must not be ‘surrendered’ to far right but there are concerns in town hit by racial tension

The Guardian - UK

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Teenager misidentified as car crash victim after officer was given ID card

Joshua Johnson, 18, died following a collision in Rotherham on December 13

The Independent UK

Teenage crash victim misidentified after officer was given ID card, court told

Joshua Johnson, 18, died following a collision in Rotherham on December 13.

Evening Standard

Family pay tribute to ‘loveable’ teenager after police mistakenly told them he survived car crash

Joshua Johnson confirmed as having died three weeks after Rotherham crash in an ‘appalling’ mix-up by officers

The Independent UK

Family of teenager misidentified in fatal car crash describe ‘unimaginable’ ordeal

Joshua Johnson died in a collision near Rotherham in December but was initially identified by police as Trevor Wynn, who survived

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Police told wrong family that teenager had been killed in deadly crash

South Yorkshire Police told the family of a 17-year-old who was badly injured in a crash in Rotherham last month that he had died.

Evening Standard

Police told wrong family that their teenage son had died in car crash

Police referred themselves to the Independent Office for Police Conduct

The Independent UK

‘Better out than in’: why a South Yorkshire charity wants people to speak their mind

Who Is Your Neighbour? lets people talk in constructive, thoughtful ways to offer an antidote to division and despair

The Guardian - UK

‘A move towards an authoritarian state’: what those with trial experience think of removing juries

David Lammy plans to cut the number of jury trials in England and Wales. A defendant, a victim, a barrister, a KC, a judge and a juror have concerns

The Guardian - UK

From grooming gangs to Virginia Giuffre, this is the common thread in abuse

Two stories of abuse have repeatedly captured the UK’s attention. The first relates to Prince Andrew’s friendship with financier Jeffrey Epstein, even after Epstein was convicted for sex offences. The second is the group-based child sexual abuse in Rotherham, Rochdale and other cities.

The Conversation

Man jailed after disorder faced discipline charge before he died, inquest hears

Peter Lynch, 61, died in HMP Moorland, near Doncaster, after he was jailed following the disorder outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham.

Evening Standard

Equal longest summer riots sentence for man who stoked fire outside hotel

Matthew Crossland, 32, was jailed for nine years after he fuelled a fire set outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham.

Evening Standard

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Man who groomed and raped two teenage girls in Rotherham jailed for 19 years

Obaidullah Omari, 46, from Sheffield, targeted the vulnerable girls, who were aged between 13 and 14 at the time of the abuse.

Evening Standard

Man found guilty of grooming and raping two teenage girls in Rotherham

Obaidullah Omari, 46, from Sheffield, targeted the vulnerable girls, who were aged between 13 and 14 at the time of the abuse.

Evening Standard

‘Every option’ to keep steel-making in Yorkshire being pursued after insolvency

Industry minister Sarah Jones said she ‘very much believes’ that steelworks have a future in South Yorkshire and the West Midlands.

Evening Standard

Family welcome inquest into death of boy sent home from A&E

A coroner has begun an investigation into the death of Yusuf Mahmud Nazir eight days after he was seen at Rotherham Hospital.

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Evening Standard

Brothers among four more jailed after rioting outside asylum seeker hotel

More than 100 people have now been sentenced following the disorder outside the Holiday Inn Express, near Rotherham, in August 2024.

The Independent UK

Brothers jailed after rioting outside asylum seeker hotel

More than 100 people have now been sentenced following the disorder outside the hotel near Rotherham last summer

The Guardian - UK

Rotherham abuse survivors welcome police climbdown over internal inquiry

South Yorkshire police will no longer lead investigation into alleged crimes of former officers after move caused outcry

Evening Standard

NCA taking over inquiry into allegations police took part in Rotherham abuse

It comes after five women alleged they were exploited by grooming gangs in the town when they were children and also sexually abused by officers

The Guardian - UK

Regret, resentment and Reform UK: jailed Rotherham rioters one year on

Men sentenced to prison time for role in violent protests after the Southport murders describe their feelings of injustice

The Independent UK

In numbers: People sentenced for offences linked to summer 2024 disorder

The age of people sentenced ranges from an 81-year-old man to a 12-year-old boy.

The Guardian - UK

Mother’s instinct not addressed, report on death of boy sent home from Rotherham A&E says

Review of 2022 death of Yusuf Mahmud Nazir calls for national guidance on taking into account parents’ intuition

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