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Bollywood actor Sumeet Singh Sarao faces garden bulldozing at £900,000 home after six-year council row

Bollywood actor and commercial singer Sumeet Singh Sarao faces the prospect of his garden being dug up or bulldozed after a six-year planning dispute with the local council. Sarao has lived at his £900,000 Telford home with his parents for 14 years and says he spent £8,000-£9,000 landscaping the garden,…

The Times of India · Sep 23

Man charged after driver attacked and thrown off bus in Telford

The bus driver was treated for minor injuries by paramedics

The Independent UK · Sep 20

The UK’s 15-year-scandal no government has gripped: grooming gangs explained

Stretching back to 2012, the government investigation into grooming gangs has a controversial history

The Guardian - UK · Oct 25, 2025

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 Conversation · Jan 14, 2025

‘Telford model’ is more effective for child abuse inquiries, says former chair

Tom Crowther KC says public inquiries seen as ‘Rolls-Royce solution’ but local review in Shropshire led to real progress

The Guardian - UK · Jan 10, 2025

Elon Musk knows ‘absolutely nothing’ about women and girls’ safety, says Jess Phillips

Safeguarding minister says billionaire has increased her risk of harm by calling her a ‘rape genocide apologist’ on X

The Guardian - UK · Jan 7, 2025

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.

Evening Standard · Jan 7, 2025

Rapper tracked down and shot dead in ‘revenge attack after murder acquittal’

Tamba Momodu, 20, was shot six times at point-blank range as he sat in a car outside a gym, Stafford Crown Court heard.

Evening Standard · Jan 6, 2025

Some hospitals restrict visitors as flu cases rise

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust has reduced visiting in hospitals due to the rising numbers of flu, Covid and other winter illnesses.

Evening Standard · Jan 3, 2025

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

Evening Standard · Jan 3, 2025