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Mick Haigh
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Still younger than that now.
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And there’s a lovely story featuring our late colleague Andrew Norfolk from his memorial at @stbrides.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Background and some history in an Andrew Norfolk Times interview earlier this year:
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thetimes.com The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · Jan 8
Elon Musk’s claims about grooming have reignited the sex grooming scandal this week.

Our former chief investigative reporter, Andrew Norfolk, first revealed the abuse in 2011 and spent years uncovering the investigation ⬇️

🔓 This story is free to read

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May 24, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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The 2015 Press Gazette piece on Andrew Norfolk, Journalist of the Year:
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Journalist of the year Andrew Norfolk thanks the bullying news editor 'who wouldn't leave me alone'
Times chief investigative reporter and journalist of the year Andrew Norfolk says he owes his success to a "bullying bastard of a news editor" he worked with on the Scarborough Evening News. Norfolk, ...
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May 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Andrew Norfolk's 'legacy lives on in every child protected and victim heard'
Andrew Norfolk, who has died aged 60, forced Britain to confront ugly truths and protect the victims of grooming gangs.
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May 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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And Andrew Norfolk’s final January interview, with Katie Razzal and Ros Atkinson on the Media Show, after which, his 60th birthday, Andrew returned, after a G&T and a fine bottle of red “to a state of permanent, irreversible retirement”

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The Media Show - Uncovering the grooming gangs, Meta ditches fact checkers, Grand Theft Auto 6 - BBC Sounds
How journalists advised grooming gang prosecutors
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May 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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The News Agents interview with Andrew Norfolk early this year
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May 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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A tribute from Julie Bindel, a friend of Andrew Norfolk and author of a 2007 S.Times child abuse piece

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Andrew Norfolk: a rare hero in the grooming gangs story
I met Andrew Norfolk, who has died at the age of 60, shortly after his first major investigation on grooming gangs was published in the Times in January 2011. We were both guests on a television debat...
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May 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Sammy Woodhouse has posted an incredible Twitter tribute to Andrew Norfolk, both on him personally and to his journalism
Sammy Woodhouse has posted a picture of her and Andrew Norfolk on Twitter together with an incredible tribute to him personally and his journalism
May 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Starmer pays tribute to Andrew Norfolk, who exposed child sexual abuse scandal
Investigation by reporter, who has died aged 60, led to findings that 1,400 children were abused over 16-year period
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May 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Andrew Norfolk obituary: Times reporter who exposed grooming gangs
Investigative journalist whose forensic reporting revealed the systematic sexual abuse of girls by men of Pakistani heritage, dies aged 60
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May 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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January 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM