The Daily Populous

Sunday March 11st, 2018 day edition

image for Britain's 'worst ever' child grooming scandal exposed: Hundreds of young girls raped, beaten, sold for sex and some even KILLED

UP to 1,000 children could have suffered in Britain’s worst known abuse scandal - where sex gangs targeted girls as young as 11.

The rape hell of vulnerable young girls in one town - Telford - went on for a shocking 40 years, the Sunday Mirror can reveal.

Despite similar high-profile cases in Rochdale and Rotherham, authorities in Telford ­repeatedly failed to stamp out a network of abusers.

Social workers knew of abuse in the 1990s but police took a decade to launch a probe.

The scale of the abuse uncovered in Telford – population 170,000 – is feared to be the most brutal and long-running of all.

Tonight Telford’s Tory MP Lucy Allan demanded a public inquiry and said our ­findings were “extremely serious and shocking”.

1996 A concerned resident claims she tells police about the activities of a key abuser selling underage girls for sex. »

Forced to marry her rapist at 11, woman finally changes Florida marriage law

Authored by usatoday.com

CLOSE A woman in Florida who was forced to marry her rapist when she was 11-years-old has helped push forward a bill to ban child marriage in the state.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A woman who was 11 when she was forced to marry her rapist has worked for six years to ban child marriages in Florida.

On Friday, she was hailed as a hero after the Legislature passed a bill prohibiting marriage for anyone under 17. »

Chicago’s WLUP Signs Off With Three Devilishly Rebellious Songs

Authored by ultimateclassicrock.com

WLUP was founded in 1977, and drew national attention two years later with the infamous Disco Demolition Night.

After earning a spot as the city's third most popular station in 1979, WLUP slipped to 15th in the latest Nielsen survey for Chicago, with a 2.9 share.

You can listen to a streaming version of the station at wlup.com , and show your support for the station by buying their official T-shirt . »

SpaceX rocket launches are getting boring — and that's an incredible success story for Elon Musk

Authored by businessinsider.com

The pace of SpaceX launches has made them seem less and less remarkable — even boring — but that's a good thing.

Elon Musk seemed very happy after the maiden launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, the world's most powerful operational rocket.

His aim: dramatically reducing the cost of sending people and cargo into space, and paving the way to the moon and Mars. »

'Black Panther' Sequel Confirmed by Marvel Studios Head

Authored by comicbook.com

Many believed that Kevin Feige and the company were just playing their cards as close to their chest as possible, trying to keep the post-Avengers 4 world a secret.

Secrets or no secrets, we all knew that a Black Panther sequel was coming sooner or later, and Feige finally made things official.

"Nothing specific to reveal, other than to say we absolutely will do that," Feige said of the Black Panther sequel. »