Former Rotherham council chief to be questioned

Rotherham council’s former top officer is to be questioned by his current boss over what he knew about the town’s sex abuse scandal.

Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson said he would speak to Ged Fitzgerald, Rotherham’s chief executive from 2001 to 2003 and now in the same role in the Merseyside city, about what he knew about a Home Office report that revealed widespread sexual abuse of under-age girls.