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March 2024

  • The Grade II*-listed building houses some of the oldest camellias in the western world.

    Rare camellias at English stately home bloom again after £5m revamp

    Newly restored plant house at Wentworth Woodhouse, home to some of world’s oldest camellias, formally opens as a global teahouse

November 2023

  • Members of the resident group Big Power for Little London hold a meeting in the home of resident Stewart Platt.

    Living hell: Britain’s rent crisis
    Residents rise up against damp homes in Little London, Rotherham

    Residents who had feared eviction if they complained are uniting to force improvements to estate’s porous concrete housing

September 2023

  • Arthur Wharton in 1895

    Rotherham honours Arthur Wharton, England’s first black professional footballer

  • Theresa May arriving at Lancaster House in London.

    Observer book of the week
    The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life by Theresa May review – blind to her own failings

March 2023

  • Nazir Ahmed

    Peer Nazir Ahmed’s jail term for 1970s sexual assault cut by three years

    Appeal court judges reduce sentence to six months for buggery of boy when ex-Labour MP was a teenager

February 2023

  • Alex Moore of the Lathums with a fringe, glasses and jacket over a shirt singing and playing guitar

    ‘There’s civic pride involved’: the UK acts scoring No 1 albums thanks to regional fanbases

    The likes of the Reytons, the Lathums, the Courteeners and Jamie Webster are all hitting big on the strength of local support that isn’t always mirrored nationally – but is it limiting?

November 2022

  • An industrial building that contained mixed domestic waste at Kiveton Park industrial estate near Rotherham continues to smoulder.

    South Yorkshire village endures seventh week of toxic smoke from industrial fire

    Waste stored in Kiveton Park building caught fire in September and is proving difficult to extinguish

August 2022

  • Duggie Brown

    Coronation Street star Duggie Brown dies aged 82

  • James Crow

    ‘It felt so powerful’: how I was seduced by the UK’s far right

July 2022

  • Police tape

    Woman killed and man injured in Rotherham dog attack

    Victim pronounced dead at scene in West Melton, while man also left with potentially life-altering injuries

June 2022

  • A teenage girl who said she was a  victim of sexual abuse and grooming pictured in Rotherham

    Costly report into Rotherham police failings ‘lets down’ grooming survivors

    Police and crime commissioner ‘disappointed’ as child sexual abuse inquiry ‘fails to identify individual accountability’

February 2022

  • A welcome to Rotherham sign

    Child sexual exploitation is downplayed to avoid bad publicity, report says

    Inquiry into abuse in England and Wales points to ‘extensive failures’ in way exploitation by criminal gangs is tackled

November 2021

  • The investigation was launched following a report in 2014 by Prof Alexis Jay.

    Police must do more to help child sexual abuse survivors, says Rotherham report

    IOPC says some systemic problems identified in 91 separate investigations still exist

October 2021

  • An aerial drone view of the Liberty Steel site in Rotherham, England.

    Liberty Steel owner GFG to restart Rotherham and Stocksbridge plants

    ‘Substantial majority’ of 1,000 jobs will be saved, with £50m pumped into the business

September 2021

  • Headteacher Pepe Di’Lasio said the measures will give staff and students a sense of security.

    Rotherham school has its own stricter standard of Covid measures

    As cases rise in South Yorkshire, Wales high school exceeds government advice on mixing and mask wearing

March 2021

  • Michael and Janet Wilson

    'If it shuts it will be a disaster': Rotherham fears for its steel industry

    Workers tell of worry as cash crisis at Liberty Steel threatens factories and supply chains

February 2021

  • Sammy Woodhouse

    Abuse survivor calls for UK children born of rape to have 'victim' legal status

    Rotherham grooming victim says children need specialist help and should be able to prosecute fathers

December 2020

  • The A205 South Circular road in Lewisham, south London, near to where nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah lived before her death, which was linked to air pollution.

    Clean air zones to tackle traffic pollution delayed or on hold

    Local authorities deferring schemes to reduce toxic emissions as calls rise to put WHO targets into UK law

October 2020

  • Andy Burnham

    North of England mayors reject support plans for local Covid lockdowns

    Greater Manchester’s Andy Burnham said government package would mean ‘failure and collapse’ for businesses

August 2020

  • Abigail Camber on hold to Leeds and Manchester universities

    'I feel cheated': Rotherham students struggle to make sense of exam grades

    At Wales high school, 84% of pupils have had at least one grade moderated down
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