According to the BBC, Ms Cooper will announce a £10 million plan to launch local inquiries into grooming gangs which will focus on the “cultural drivers” and ethnicity of the gangs.

Blackburn Rovers have made a move in their ambition to sign a striker this window, lodging a bid for Brandon Thomas-Asante. John Eustace has been open about his desire to bring in a new forward option ...

SHAMROCK ROVERS have added former Ireland under-21 international Matt Healy to their ranks. Healy joins from Belgian Second Division club Royal Francs Borains where he has spent the past 18 months.

The drive to groom themselves is so strong that, in a 2000 study, if a cat was prohibited from grooming for 72 hours, a 67% increase in oral grooming would take place in the following 12 hours.

The vast majority of grooming gang offences are carried out by white men, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) has said. New figures from the police database show that, where ethnicity ...

The Prime Minister will be ‘guided by the victims’, his official spokesman said, following a Commons showdown over a new inquiry. Downing Street has rejected suggestions that Sir Keir Starmer ...

Bristol Rovers teenagers Kofi Shaw and Dan Ellison are set to remain at National League clubs Yeovil Town and Aldershot Town for the rest of the season after productive loan spells. Shaw has come ...

would groom his "under regions in the sauna" in front of other players. "Now, my first thing is – you wanna call me during primetime radio in Philadelphia and talk to me about something like that?

Blackburn Rovers have recalled Connor O'Riordan from his loan spell at Cambridge United. The 21-year-old has struggled for game time with the League One side and was always likely to return to ...

Addressing Badenoch in PMQs, the prime minister suggested she was just jumping on the “bandwagon” by only raising the issue of grooming gangs now. He said: “The leader of the opposition has ...

The education secretary said Jenrick, who was a minister in the Home Office under Rishi Sunak, did not use his platform to raise the issue when the Tories were in power. It comes as the ...