I Was Groomed by a Paedophile Gang
The town of Rotherham has been at the centre of a national sex abuse scandal. Sarah Wilson tells us how she was abused from the age of eleven.
Rotherham is a deprived, industrial town in the north of England, which has been at the centre of a national sex abuse scandal. It's been revealed that as many as 1400 underage girls may have been groomed and abused by gangs over a period of 16 years. Sarah Wilson was abused from the age of eleven. Now 23, she has written a book about her experiences called Violated.
Ahmed Dickinson Cardenas is a Cuban-born classical guitarist, now living in London. But his life could have worked out very differently. As a child he was more interested in pursuing a career in sport. He tells the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Nicki Paxman why he ended up choosing music.
One of the world's most complicated and confusing border disputes ended last Friday as India and Bangladesh exchanged more than 160 enclaves - little pockets of land that belong to one country, but are located in another. We hear from a family on each side.
In the tiny village of Daone high in the mountains of northern Italy, a group of elderly women have come up with an ingenious way to fulfil their life-long dream of visiting the seaside. They call themselves the 'Funne', which in the local dialect means 'women' - and for the past year they have been raising money via crowd-funding. Dany Mitzman went to meet them as they were preparing for their trip.
(Photo: Sarah Wilson)
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