Britain's leading expert in preventing young girls being groomed for sex has hailed the Lancashire Telegraph's Keep Them Safe campaign. Grahame Maxwell, chief constable of North Yorkshire police, commended the paper for raising awareness about the problem. The Blackburn-based paper launched the campaign 17 months ago in the wake of its investigation which revealed that up to 100 girls between 12 and 16 had been targeted by gangs of predatory males. (Via Lancashire Telegraph)
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