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'We need the excuses to stop!' Parent of grooming gangs victim gives heartwrenching plea to Government

'We need the excuses to stop!' Parent of grooming gangs victim gives heartwrenching plea to Government
A parent of a grooming gangs victim gave a heartwrenching plea to the Government this morning.Speaking after the Tories made their announcement to launch an "alternative rape gangs inquiry", parent Teresa said: "We just need things to move on. "And we need openness and honesty in all this. And we just need all the excuses to stop and this move forward because my son's no longer here. "How many other victims/survivors are not here to see the justice all the time it's being delayed?"People are falling away and we are losing confidence in our local councils and the Government. You know, there's nothing. We're not getting nothing. It's just a standstill. And we feel that it's being denied. "They are moving away from the issues of who is committing these crimes, because it is, at the end of the day, is a crime."WATCH CLIP ABOVE FOR MORE
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ChatGPT is back up after an outage disrupted use this afternoon

If you had trouble using ChatGPT today, you aren't alone. The AI chatbot experienced a partial outage for many users this afternoon, with Down Detector saw reports reaching more than 12,000 reports around the peak point of the issue today.. OpenAI issued a status update shortly after noting that "elevated error rates" were occurring for ChatGPT and Platform users. That problem was marked as resolved at 5:14PM ET.

While the initial outage may be repaired, OpenAI does still have an active status alert up. It's only for the fine-tuning component of its API service. But the end may also be in sight for that final issue, because the current statement from the company is "We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovering.

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Take-Two hit pause on the Switch 2 port of Borderlands 4

2K owner Take-Two has paused development on Borderlands 4 for the Nintendo Switch 2, the company shared during its Q3 2026 earnings presentation. The Switch 2 port was originally planned to be released on October 3, 2025, a few weeks after the game's September 12 launch on all other platforms, but was indefinitely delayed on September 23.

"We made the difficult decision to pause development on that SKU," Take-Two told Variety. "Our focus continues to be delivering quality post-launch content for players on the ongoing improvements to optimize the game. We�re continuing to collaborate closely with our friends at Nintendo. We have PGA Tour 2K25 coming out and WWE 2K26, and we're incredibly excited about bringing more of our titles to that platform in the future."

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"Britain's top tradesman" has revealed to GB News exactly why he is leaving the UK.Builder Martin Daly, 30, from Motherwell, was named Screwfix's Top Tradesperson of the Year for inspiring young people to enter the trade - but he is now ditching Scotland for Switzerland."I'm not going there just to get more money," he told Patrick Christys on Monday."It's more just for a better quality of life - to wake up, know that your Government is looking after you."But he also offered a damning assessment of the options on offer to up-and-coming tradespeople in the UK.In Britain, Mr Daly said, "no one can afford to take young people on". "I've had a few apprentices spread their wings. A few have gone to Australia, some have went out on their own," he said. "It's not that the younger generation don't want to get into the trades, but there's just not enough career paths and routes for them to go down."WATCH THE CLIP ABOVE FOR MORE
In today's daily reflection we celebrate Candlemas, when Jesus, still a baby, was presented in the Temple at Jerusalem. "In that story, Mary and Joseph with Jesus met an older, prayerful man named Simeon. "As Simeon held Jesus, he prayed these words, Lord, as you have promised. Now dismiss your servant in peace."

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