Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

DARK SECRETS: 3 | Vintage Vibes

Man jailed for 15 months after ‘burn hotels’ social media post during riots

Joseph Haythorne posted the comment in August 2024 just as violence erupted outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in South Yorkshire.

Evening Standard

What is the new grooming gangs inquiry going to do after the Casey report?

A full statutory inquiry into UK grooming gangs will soon begin work

The Independent UK

Liberty Steel’s South Yorkshire operations lost £340m in four years

Exclusive: court documents lay bare crisis at Sanjeev Gupta’s steelworks as it struggles to find buyers in face of looming liquidation

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Liberty Steel has not produced anything at two key plants since July 2024

Lack of work at Rotherham and Motherwell sites highlights financial crisis at UK’s third-biggest steel producer

The Guardian - UK

Three men charged with rape of teenage girl in Rotherham

The alleged victim was aged 14 or 15 when the offences are said to have taken place between 2007 and 2010.

The Independent UK

Andrew Norfolk obituary

Journalist whose dogged reporting of grooming gangs in the north of England led to a public inquiry and changes in the law

The Guardian - UK

Andrew Norfolk: Times reporter who exposed Rotherham grooming scandal dies aged 60

The PM paid tribute to a journalist ‘driven by desire to call our attention to injustice’

Evening Standard

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Man arrested on suspicion of murder after body found in river

Officers attended a river near Treeton Lane in Rotherham on Saturday where the man’s body was found.

Evening Standard

MPs Shout 'Shame!' After Reform UK Member Alleges Labour Minister Covered Up Grooming Gang Abuses

On Monday, Reform UK MP Lee Anderson accused Jess Phillips of partaking in the cover-up of the grooming gang members responsible for the Rotherham child trafficking ring.

International Business Times UK

Cyclist, 81, dies after ‘hit and run’ involving car

The fatal crash happened on the A57 in Todwick, near Rotherham, on Friday.

Evening Standard

Third ex-police officer arrested in Rotherham child sexual exploitation inquiry

Former officer with South Yorkshire force arrested on suspicion of raping teenage girl in 2004

The Guardian - UK

Brothers jailed for raping teenagers in Rotherham

Mark and Robert Evans befriended the girls, one as young as 13, in the South Yorkshire town almost two decades ago.

The Independent UK

Labour MP says Starmer ‘taking the axe’ to UK’s aid budget to fund defence

Labour MP for Rotherham Sarah Champion also said a ‘scandalously large amount of ODA’ had been spent ‘on domestic refugee costs’.

Evening Standard

Rotherham rapists jailed for grooming girls who were ‘vulnerable in the extreme’

The pair inflicted ‘severe psychological harm’ to their victims, judge says

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Two men are found guilty of raping teenage girls in Rotherham

Romulad Stefan Houphouet, 37, and Absolom Sigiyo, 41, targeted two victims while they were living in a children’s home

The Independent UK

Watch father-of-two’s bizarre destruction spree during Yorkshire riots

This is the moment a balaclava-wearing father-of-two fuelled a fire outside a hotel housing asylum-seekers.

International Business Times

'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.

The Independent UK

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

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - 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

Evening Standard

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.

The Conversation

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 Independent UK

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 Conversation

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…

The Independent UK

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.

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Sheffield Crown Court

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.