Inspectorate finds force has made ‘significant improvements’ in how it treats victims of sexual exploitation

Greater Manchester police are investigating more than 1,000 grooming gang suspects, as a new report found the force was “trying to provide a better service to those who have experienced sexual exploitation”.

The force has made “significant improvements” in how it investigates grooming gangs and other types of child sexual abuse offences, according to the report by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services.

Joseph Haythorne from Ashford made comment on X as violence was breaking out at asylum hotel near Rotherham

An engineer who posted “burn any hotels with those scruffy bastards in it” online as violence erupted outside a hotel housing asylum seekers has been jailed for 15 months.

Joseph Haythorne, 26, from Ashford in Surrey, posted the comment on X, formerly known as Twitter, at lunchtime on 4 August last year, just as violence was breaking out near Rotherham, South Yorkshire.