The Latest Breaking News from Rochdale

Mohammed Fahir Amaaz and Muhammad Amaad, both of Rochdale, are to stand trial at Liverpool Crown Court.

Eight Asian men are on trial accused of grooming and sexually abusing two teenage girls in the town.

Both young girls, then aged 13, had troubled upbringings and were particularly vulnerable

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…

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.

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

Ex-health worker who exposed paedophile ring says billionaire’s triggering of row ignores plight of survivors

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 PA news agency sets out what happened.