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Greater Manchester Police is clamping down on some e-cigarette shops because they have become honeypots for vulnerable children as the former mill town still battles child abusers.
Rochdale girl Victoria Agoglia was meant to be receiving round-the-clock solo residential care, but went missing 19 times in three months for up to two weeks at a time.
The review into how police and social workers did not respond to large-scale child sexual exploitation by gangs of mainly Asian men was published this morning.