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'Life's Ruined': UK Town Broken By Grooming Gangs Wants Answers

Once famed as an industrial powerhouse that produced some of the world's finest steel, Rotherham is now known as the epicentre of the UK grooming scandal, leaving the town angry, ashamed and needing answers.

International Business Times

How misinformation about the Southport murders sparked violent race riots across the country

Axel Rudakubana, then 17, unleashed an attack on 30 July during a Taylor Swift-themed dance class – in the chaotic hours following the incident, misinformation began spreading online

The Independent UK

Dead Before They Wake review – brutal grooming-gang thriller marries mawkishness and bloodlust

Seemingly inspired by the Rotherham child rape scandal, Nathan Shepka’s film has both a streak of sentimentality and an appetite for violence

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Rioter told he has ‘utterly wrecked his life’ as he is jailed for three years

John Webster, 41, was a ‘prominent participant’ in the confrontations between rioters and police outside the Holiday Inn Express, in Rotherham.

Evening Standard

I work with abuse survivors in Rotherham – the current discussion about grooming gangs risks retraumatising them

Survivors of sexual abuse in the UK are, sadly, all too familiar with the feeling of being exploited for the gain of others.

The Conversation

Pensioner uses pair of jeans to fight off masked laundromat robber

An elderly man fought off a masked robber using only a pair of jeans inside a launderette in Maltby, Rotherham, dramatic CCTV footage shows.

The Independent UK

Elon Musk and the phoney far-right narrative of ‘protecting’ women

Across the 2000s, a series of child sex exploitation cases affected British towns, including Telford, Rochdale, Oxford and Rotherham, scarring the lives of hundreds of children. In 2011, Times journalist Andrew Norfolk reported that networks – so-called “grooming gangs” – of largely British Asian men of Pakistani heritage had trafficked…

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Starmer under pressure as second Labour MP breaks ranks to call for grooming gangs inquiry

U-turn by Rotherham MP Sarah Champion risks re-opening row triggered by billionaire and Donald Trump ally Elon Musk

The Independent UK

Labour MP for Rotherham calls for locally-led national grooming gangs inquiry

Sarah Champion has proposed a national ‘Telford-style’ inquiry rolled out by the Home Office to areas that trigger the threshold for greater scrutiny.

The Independent UK

Streeting: Grooming gangs rhetoric could lead to UK version of NZ mosque attack

One clip of Christchurch terrorist Brenton Tarrant’s ammunition had ‘For Rotherham’ scrawled upon it; an apparent reference to UK grooming gangs.

Evening Standard

The Guardian view on child sexual exploitation: concrete action must be the priority

Editorial: The response to the independent inquiry has been too slow. New policies to tackle all forms of abuse are needed urgently

The Guardian - UK

Fact check: How many children have been the victims of grooming gangs?

Full Fact has found a widely-shared estimate that a million children have been victims is not reliable, but the true total remains unclear.

Evening Standard

OPINION - This is another scandal: Britain is letting grooming gang criminals out of prison early

What happened to children at the hands of Pakistani-heritage rape gangs and how the police and councillors failed society’s most vulnerable, has been hauled back into the public spotlight by Elon Musk. For many of us rereading the details, it has been a sickening experience.

Evening Standard

Wednesday briefing: What Elon Musk’s focus on grooming gangs reveals about alt-right online discourse

In today’s newsletter: The owner of X, who previously said ‘civil war is inevitable’ in Britain, has stoked online unrest with incendiary comments about the UK

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Evening Standard

OPINION - The last inquiry failed grooming gang victims — we need a full national inquiry

It’s easy to get sucked into the online fight between Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, and the British government over the rape gangs scandal. But it risks us losing sight of what really matters: the victims and their needs.

Reason

What's Happening to Canada?

Plus: CCP police station in NYC, Rotherham rape scandal, McDonald's scraps DEI nonsense, and more...

The Guardian - UK

Why is Elon Musk attacking Keir Starmer over the grooming scandal?

Owner of social media platform X has shared a series of posts about the British PM and other senior politicians

The Independent UK

Timeline of grooming cases and investigations in recent years

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced on Thursday that the Government will commission a series of local reviews into grooming gangs.

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The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on calls for a national inquiry into child sexual abuse

The government’s most urgent priority is not to launch another review but to develop a societal strategy to tackle the crime

Evening Standard

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

The National (Scotland)

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...

Evening Standard

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’.

The Guardian - UK

‘They thought they were going to die’: the asylum seekers who survived rioters trying to burn down their accommodation

Four months on from the far-right violence that shocked the UK, what happened to the men living in a hotel that was targeted?

The Guardian - UK

Two former Rotherham police officers arrested over child sexual abuse

Offences alleged to have taken place in 1990s while ex-constables, now in their 50s and 60s, were on duty

The Independent UK

Rotherham rioter who tried to set fire to asylum seeker hotel is jailed for nine years

Levi Fishlock – who was ‘very identifiable’ in a purple England football shirt during the UK summer riots – has been given one of the stiffest sentences so far

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