From shocking cover-ups to the 50 towns and cities affected, here are GB News' biggest grooming gang exposés

GB News National Reporter Charlie Peters has hailed the terms of the inquiry as offering hope for thousands of victims, adding that the state cannot hide from the difficult questions.The People's Channel has been instrumental in driving forward this inquiry by giving a voice to victims and exposing the various ways those in power turned a blind eye to their abusers and thwarted attempts to make them answer for their crimes. Below are the five most shocking revelations about the grooming gangs GB News has uncovered through painstaking investigations and first-hand testimony. Local cover-ups Speaking to an ex-South Yorkshire Police officer who was operating at the time of the Rotherham abuses, GB News learned how local Labour councillors who were on the board of mosques influenced criminal investigations into the grooming gang abuses in Rotherham.The ex-cop provided an unprecedented insight into how structural changes to the force allowed these politicians to influence decision-making. The retired officer told GB News: We always say the police are independent of political intrusion, but they're not.Read the full story here. Money talks TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say In the second part of our exclusive interview with the ex-South Yorkshire Police officer, he exposed how high-ranking police officers were incentivised to overlook grooming gang abuses.A patchwork of failures emerged, all underpinned by a financial incentive, the former cop revealed.Darren Jones, whose real name was changed to protect his anonymity, told GB News that a big push at that time dictated which complaints were investigated and which were dropped.Read the full story to find out how money was the primary motivator. Grooming gangs still active In the third part of our exclusive interview with an ex-South Yorkshire Police officer, he provided an explosive assessment of the grooming gang networks still active in Britain.The problem is massive, he told the People's Channel.While he stressed that lessons have been learned since then and that forces have now got their eye on the ball, much more needs to be done to crack down on these networks. He also provided chilling insight into why the perpetrators are still at large. Find out just how dire his assessment is and just how many rape gangs could still be operating on our streets. The 50 towns and cities rocked by abuseAn exclusive investigation by GB News has identified 50 towns and cities where child exploitation gangs have operated, revealing that the scale of the abuse is far greater than official reports have suggested.There have been several local and national inquiries into grooming gang activities in various UK towns, including Rotherham, Telford, and Rochdale.Successive governments over the years deemed these inquiries sufficient.However, a nationwide investigation by the People's Channel revealed that these inquiries barely scratched the surface of the scale of the abuses, uncovering evidence of at least 50 towns and cities affected. Did your area make the list? Find out now.The uncomfortable truth about Labour-run areas A GB News investigation found Britain's grooming gangs were overwhelmingly represented in areas where Labour holds big majorities.To investigate this, the People's Channel cross-referenced the accumulation of evidence of abuses it had painstakingly gathered with how many occurred in traditional Labour seats. We then did a deep-dive into how many votes Labour received at the last general election in each affected area and listed the convictions related to grooming gangs. Read the full story here to see if your local constituency is featured.