4 h. ago 'Human errors' led to grooming gang cases being dropped, review finds amid huge NCA investigation

Thousands of cases of rape and sexual assault are being reviewed as part of the National Crime Agency’s Operation Beaconport

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4 h. ago Grooming gang investigations dropped by police because of ‘potentially human error’

Thousands of investigations that ended without a conviction will be reviewed as part of Operation Beaconport

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4 h. ago Grooming gang investigations dropped due to ‘human error’, early review suggests

Initial inquiries by a national taskforce suggest available lines of inquiry were not pursued in some sex abuse gang cases.

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6 d. ago Two disability experts appointed to help lead Government review of major benefit

Sir Stephen Timms suggested disabled people would be placed ‘at the heart’ of the review he is undertaking into personal independent payments.

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1 week ago Standard Exclusive investigation: Inside London’s grooming gang shame

Police failure. Institutional cover-up. Establishment silence: The real story of London’s harrowing grooming gang epidemic

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2 w. ago Blue, Yoda originally was, archival Star Wars sources reveal

Review of screenplay, novel, and comics suggests film-makers made late decision to make diminutive Jedi master green“You must unlearn what you have learned,” Jedi master Yoda instructed his stubborn apprentice, Luke Skywalker. And now Star Wars fans may have to do the same after confirmation that the beloved fictional alien was very nearly blue, or even purple.Reviews of archival sources – and new testimony from a special effects makeup artist who worked on the first Yoda puppets – suggest film-makers made a decision late in the development process to switch the character’s skin colour to green. Continue reading...

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