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Actually I am a journalist. I am NCTJ certified with qualifications in law; shorthand, English and public administration. I’ve been reporter working in newspaper, radio and television newsrooms for the past 41 years. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s journalistic qualifications are?

Ce que je vois de mes yeux aux Canaries est FOU. Un espagnol vient carrément de nous parler d’invasion. On a des centaines d’hommes (quasi exclusivement) venus du Sénégal, de Gambie, de Mauritanie etc. qui débarquent sur les îles de l’archipel espagnol. La Croix Rouge les prend en charge. Ils sont transférés dans des camps un peu partout à Tenerife et pourront demain être envoyés sur le territoire métropolitain espagnol, à Malaga par exemple. Vous connaissez la suite. On est le seul média sur place avec les migrants, c’est ça @frontieresmedia. Pour nous soutenir sur le terrain quand c’est comme ça, abonnez-vous, relayez nous, faites monter le sujet et faites un don sur frontieresmedia.fr

Rebecca was sold into sexual slavery before she could walk. Her father - a Lockheed Martin contractor with CIA connections - gave her to a man she calls "Mr. E" as a newborn baby. Mr. E ran a child pornography ring, and Rebecca became his product. From birth to age seven, she was drugged with ketamine, flown across the country, and passed between groups of men who filmed themselves doing things to her that would make a courtroom go silent. Her mother wasn't a victim in this. Her mother was part of it. She beat Rebecca unconscious and sexually abused her herself. The woman who gave birth to her helped deliver her into hell. In the interview, Rebecca says it out loud, and the room stops breathing. They violated her with objects. They shoved a loaded gun in her mouth. They forced a loaded gun inside her body. She was three. They filmed everything. But that's not the detail that breaks her. She watched children die. During these filmed sessions, other kids were murdered in front of her. Their deaths were turned into content - sexualized, recorded, distributed. And after, the men would look down at her and say: if you ever tell anyone what happened here, you're next. They choked her until she passed out. They suffocated her until her body stopped fighting. They dragged her to the edge of death again and again because watching a child almost die was entertainment to them. She says she learned what dying felt like before she learned how to read. At seven, they threw her away. She wasn't rescued. No one came for her. She simply got too old for their taste. Seven years old and already used up. She's 53 now. Fifty years later, and not one person from that network has been investigated. She looks into the camera and asks the only question that matters - how did every single one of them walk free? This woman spent half a century carrying the memory of children being killed in front of her. She was drugged, filmed, violated with weapons, and discarded before she understood what a childhood was supposed to look like. And the people who did it? They're still out there. Living normal lives. Untouched.

So how did a property adviser end up posting about Andy Burnham and Abu Dhabi? All we wanted was a planning permission. It took Manchester City Council over nine years to give us one. In that time Renaker put up about a dozen towers, seven of them around our site. My client has owned a site on Great Jackson Street in Manchester for 40 years. In October 2017 we started work on planning for 1,037 flats there. We are Manchester born and bred. Friends in London warned us that development in Manchester was "the Wild West". We didn't know how right they were. We were told we had to provide £28.8m of affordable housing. So we asked what Renaker's Deansgate Square next door had paid. The answer:- Nothing. Zero. Nada. Zip. 1,508 flats and no section 106 agreement at all. Nobody at Manchester City Council could explain why. On four Renaker schemes MCC has "lost" the viability files. We were told we had to pay just over £1m as an upfront payment. Exactly £1,000 per flat. Across 20 Renaker towers and 8,543 homes, Manchester City Council took just £487,000. That is £57 a home. So we kept looking. We found £598m of public loans from Andy Burnham's GMCA to Renaker. Add in the other public sources and it is £868m, to companies controlled by one man. None of these loans were ever publicised and the loan terms remain almost entirely hidden. It took nearly four years just to get to the planning committee. Over nine years on, nothing is built. We then asked MCC for permission to knock down our own empty warehouses. It refused, giving ten flimsy reasons. So off to court we went. In January 2026 a High Court judge rejected all ten and held that MCC had "acted unreasonably". That case cost MCC over £200,000 of public money. And for what? My client also owns the main Royal Mail depot on Oldham Road. MCC has since told us that land sits inside its joint venture with Far East Consortium. It has kept over a third of that agreement hidden, including the plan, and won't show it to us. Why? So we carried on asking questions. Then they blocked my emails. We never set out to investigate anyone. We asked one question, got no answer, and kept digging. We still are. #ProjectCleanCity @SianReform @NathanEvansTeam @JoshHalliday @rbrooks45 @DeclanGCarey @jackdulhanty