内容摘要：A project to make Sunderland part of the European Music Cities Network, which sees members work together to enhance cities by growing the music sector, was launched at the end of June.

A project to make Sunderland part of the European Music Cities Network, which sees members work together to enhance cities by growing the music sector, was launched at the end of June.

“They had no interest in solutions, they were interested in exploiting the situation."Ten years on, tensions remain in the town and recently came to the fore at the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, near Rotherham, when a riot broke out outside the hotel, which housed asylum seekers, in the wake of the Southport knife attack.

“There is such a danger in allowing people to blame ‘the other’, especially when your life itself isn't great,” he said.Mr Norfolk first became aware of cases in West Yorkshire when Ann Cryer, at the time the MP for Keighley, publicly raised concerns about the abuse of two girls in her constituency.“I'd noticed a handful of cases from local newspaper reports. Initially, I wanted to look away, which is shame on me, but then one particular incident happened.”

Mr Norfolk heard a BBC radio report from Manchester Crown Court about nine men who had been convicted of offences against a 14-year-old girl who lived in a care home. He discovered the men were Asian.His editor granted him five months to research the cases across the north. In January 2011, The Times ran its first story.

Days later, a concerned Rotherham grandfather contacted him and told him his 12-year-old granddaughter had been found drunk and half-naked, with a group of Asian men. When police attended the house, the schoolgirl was arrested for being drunk and disorderly.

This was a “key introduction” into how girls and their parents had been so badly let down in the town.The tests are similar to

, but individual pupils results will not be published in Northern Ireland.In a statement, Givan said that the tests would be introduced in the 2025/26 school year for a three-year period and would stop Northern Ireland being an "outlier."

"Literacy and numeracy are the essential foundation of all education," he said."Northern Ireland is currently without any measures of how our system is performing in both these areas at primary school and Key Stage 3."