Rotherham Council cancels civic dinner

Rotherham's Borough Council has taken the decision to scrap their annual civic dinner in the wake of the damning reports into child sexual exploitation in the town. Deputy Mayor, councillor Maggi Clark, announced that it would be "wholly wrong" for the celebration to go ahead after the authority was branded "not fit for purpose" by a report earlier this month. The dinner, usually held in May, is used to announce the Mayor's charitable fundraising campaigns for the coming year.