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Regret, resentment and Reform UK: jailed Rotherham rioters one year on

Men sentenced to prison time for role in violent protests after the Southport murders describe their feelings of injustice

The Guardian - UK

In numbers: People sentenced for offences linked to summer 2024 disorder

The age of people sentenced ranges from an 81-year-old man to a 12-year-old boy.

The Independent UK

Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers

Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time

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Justice Secretary ‘determined to keep prison staff safe’ as Tasers trial starts

Specialist officers based in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, and Doncaster, South Yorkshire, will be the first to become equipped with Tasers from Monday.

Evening Standard

What was the Battle of Orgreave, and why has the government launched an inquiry into it?

The UK’s home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has announced a full inquiry into the Battle of Orgreave, a large, violent clash between the National Union of Mineworkers and South Yorkshire police that took place over 40 years ago.

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The Guardian view on the Orgreave inquiry: scrutiny of South Yorkshire police’s actions is long overdue

Editorial: That a panel will examine the brutal treatment of striking miners, and faked police statements, is a triumph for civil society

The Guardian - UK

Tuesday briefing: Uncovering the truth behind the bloodshed at Orgreave, four decades on

In today’s newsletter: The investigative reporter whose work helped lead to a new inquiry into one of the most brutal clashes in British industrial history on its connection with the Hillsborough disaster – and why justice is finally due

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Police behaviour at protests not changed since Orgreave, say activists

Supporters of newly announced inquiry into 1984-85 miners’ strike warn of more injustices by ‘agents of the state’

The Guardian - UK

Miners arrested at Orgreave say their names can finally be cleared after inquiry

The inquiry, expected to launch in the autumn, will investigate the events surrounding clashes at the Orgreave Coking Plant in South Yorkshire in 1984

The Independent UK

Driver who inhaled nitrous oxide gas before and after killing cyclist jailed

Cain Byrne sentenced to 11 and a half years in young offender institution over death of Graham Slinn in South Yorkshire

The Guardian - UK

Inquiry launched to uncover truth behind violent clashes at Orgreave miners’ strike

The 1984 clashes in South Yorkshire have been described as one of the ‘most controversial episodes in policing history’

The Independent UK

Government launches Orgreave inquiry, 40 years after clashes at miners’ strike

Move follows decades of campaigning over violent policing and collapsed prosecutions at South Yorkshire coking plant

The Guardian - UK

The confrontation at Orgreave: a visual timeline

In the early summer of 1984, 8,000 miners and supporters gathered to picket a coke works in South Yorkshire. They were met by a force of 6,000 police officers

The Guardian - UK

UK government considers rescue package for second major steel plant this year

Exclusive: Speciality Steel UK, which employs 1,450 people in South Yorkshire, could be supported if it enters administration

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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.

The Guardian - UK

Northumbria police destroy Battle of Orgreave and other miners’ strike files

Force says it disposed of papers last year despite forthcoming inquiry into scenes of violent policing in 1984

Evening Standard

Pictured: British mother who died from rabies after being 'scratched very slightly' by a puppy in Morocco

Yvonne Ford, 59, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, came in contact with the dog while on holiday in February this year

The Guardian - 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

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Man appears in court on fraud charges connected to Martin O’Hagan case

Michael Kingsberry, with an address in Sycamore Close in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, appeared before Craigavon Magistrates’ Court.

The Independent UK

Government backs investment to support airport reopening

A £30 million package announced by the mayor of South Yorkshire is aimed at supporting the reopening of Doncaster Sheffield Airport.

The Guardian - UK

Fury among families after senior Hillsborough officers absolved by police watchdog

Campaigners denounce ‘cover-up of a cover-up’ as IOPC clears officers of scapegoating Liverpool supporters

The Guardian - UK

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 Independent 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 Guardian - UK

Reform UK will go to war with teaching unions, says Nigel Farage

Outburst comes after anti-racism campaigners disrupt event in South Yorkshire and are escorted out

Evening Standard

Proportion of workforce economically inactive because of sickness, by local area

Estimates range from 17.4% of the workforce in Clackmannanshire to 1.0% in the London borough of Lambeth.

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