The Sunday Edition: The journalist who exposed Britain’s grooming gangs

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Politics, Unknown, Daily News, News

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🗓️ 17 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This episode was originally published in January.

Elon Musk has unleashed a huge political row in the UK over whether there should be a national inquiry into the gangs that groomed young girls for rape in a number of Britain's northern towns. But whilst the world's richest man accused the 'legacy media' of a cover-up, the scandal was actually exposed by Times journalist Andrew Norfolk. So how did he uncover the shocking story? And has enough been done to make sure it never happens again?

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Guest: Andrew Norfolk, former Chief Investigations Reporter, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Emily Webb.

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1:13.7	Hi, it's Manvine here.
1:19.4	On Thursday, with great sadness, the Times announced the death of one of our own,
1:22.2	the legendary reporter Andrew Norfolk.
1:29.3	His brilliant exposés had regularly featured on the front pages of the Times, and he was, as the editor of the Times, Tony Gallagher said, without doubt, one of the greatest investigative
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