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Donna Ockenden’s final report on the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Independent Maternity and Neonatal Review was published earlier this week. This was the largest maternity care scandal in the NHS. The findings of the final report are horrendous, heartbreaking and unforgivable.

It’s not often you see people in politics trying to reassure Nazis. It didn’t used to be anyway.

British Jetsport Championship this weekend at Rother Valley. Someone is going to have a cracking photo of some confused looking geese…

Me and Danny have made our predication now its over to @englandft.bsky.social

620 years of sentences for 52 child sex offenders now as part of Operation Stovewood, with more to come. As the national inquiry moves forward, the need for resourcing such non-recent investigations across the country on a more permanent basis will only grow. www.thestar.co.uk/news/courts/...

Work is underway! New business units are coming to Templeborough, as part of the government grant-funded Business Zone. An £8.4m investment in our local economy, it sits at the heart of the Don Valley Corridor area. It was a very hot afternoon to go and see them though…

One day there’ll be a broad understanding of statistics.

Matt Goodwin's Ingerland. A free post open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

This year’s schools capital programme includes further major works for Newman Special School after the council agreed a funding package with the Department for Education: www.rotherham.gov.uk/news/article...

From Hull, Hell and Halifax, may the Good Lord deliver us. Actually, let me come back to you about Hull.

Promoted by someone being… annoying… on the internet (a rarity I know), I stumbled into this about the impact of hot weather on military operations which is unexpectedly fascinating: www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Mil...

🔴 Is Britain’s Plug-In Solar Revolution Really Just Months Away? Ministers are consulting on rules that will let households plug cheap solar panels straight into their mains. But several big questions remain unanswered. I've delved into the details: bylinetimes.com/2026/06/25/i...

Genuinely think it'll need a high profile politician to do a McAlpine and mass-sue hundreds of people for posting or sharing outright libellous allegations. Would be unwise for Burnham but might make sense for Sadiq Khan, who's politically secure and whose haters tend to be outside London.

In commemoration of the Boston Tea Party… Here's why a tiny South Yorkshire castle is celebrating America’s 250th birthday www.thestar.co.uk/your-world/h...

Delighted that we’re working with Capital&Centric on plans for the next stage of town centre homes: www.rotherham.gov.uk/news/article...

80% of the way to our original target, this is the difference it makes > “I still wake up every day and can’t believe I live here” www.rotherham.gov.uk/news/article...

The first phase of local investigations as part of the national grooming gangs inquiry will cover Oldham, Bradford with Keighley, and (somehow) London: www.grooming-gangs.independent-inquiry.uk/local-invest...

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Bus drivers often get a bad press, so here is one thoroughly decent man #NiceThings

Stopped off for the official opening of the new exhibition at Clifton Park Museum this evening - looking back at 130 years of what makes a local exhibition. Lots of interest… and more mosquitoes than I would have guessed… www.rotherhammuseums.co.uk/homepage/65/...

Very dignified from Keir Starmer this morning. You can’t help but feel that in any other era he would have been able to serve for longer.

Labour won by 20 points and net immigration is down by over 80% in two years. But sure write your column again.

Mostly what Josh took from it is that tablets need plugging in. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Where’s Andy Burnham going?

Our Armed Forces Day event, immaculately observed in the sunshine today.

This is correct.

We continue to urge the government to do everything possible to get a viable deal over the line. Sites in Sheffield and Rotherham set for new owner as photos show Speciality Steel is the real deal www.thestar.co.uk/business/pho...

This is an embarrassing image for the UK. A self-respecting British fox should be dragging Binface's contents out over the stage

A good start.

"The BBC represents... one of the few services that provides almost everyone some form of news and common experience. That is particularly important given the UK’s adversaries are fighting information wars and other destabilisation campaigns against us, our society and democracy." Well said.

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Hmmm.

Your occasional reminder: www.rotherham.gov.uk/homepage/303...

Blimey. Can’t be clearer than that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Further coverage of the NPP report > AMP transformation makes Rotherham a global story www.rothbiz.co.uk/2026/06/news...

Right then England, we’ve a giant foot coming to town… if you wouldn’t mind doing the business later to cheer everyone up a bit… www.rotherhamtowncentre.co.uk/world-cup

We will be remembering and celebrating our Armed Forces community this weekend at Rotherham’s Armed Forces Day event🎖️  Come along to the town centre on Saturday 20 June from 10am to 2pm to join in and show your support.  Find out more➡️ www.rotherham.gov.uk/armed-forces-support/events

Makes you proud to be a Brit: ‘She called the gunfire "completely unnecessary", and said she had reported the incident as a hazard to navigation "because that's what you're supposed to do".’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Russian propaganda / Tommy Robinson nexus continues. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

This Saturday is Armed Forces Day in town: www.rotherham.gov.uk/news/article...

Solar nerds! We have some movement on plug-in solar. DESNZ's consultation on plug-in solar (panels on balconies and gardens, good for renters) has just launched, and it closes 30 June. Suggesting they want to move fast on this. www.gov.uk/government/c...

This is the perfect Kemi Badenoch line: obviously crazy, coarsens our politics and the kind of thing that collapses if she ever put herself somewhere she might face a gentle follow-up question. What does she think the Gestapo *did*?

The official Russian government response to the shadow fleet vessel seized in the Channel was interesting in this context. The alignment is… quite something.

However, I fear Reform is pushing on an door that has been propped open by complete misinformation (or less politely: bullshit) about social housing and immigration that has been circulating on and off line www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/our-...

We really are in a dark place when these things need saying www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/reforms...

NEW ANALYSIS: Amid reports the govt is poised to water down EV targets, the UK's EV drivers are saving more than £1,100 each a year – and £3bn in total Plug-in hybrids, which could be pushed to make up for lower BEV sales, save three times less ££ www.carbonbrief.org/...

UK government announces £132.5m after-school clubs package

Sometimes I hope that God exists, so the richest man in human history can rot in hell.