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i'm damien mcguinness. thanks very much for joining us. on the programme today, saving the programme today, saving -- on the programme today, saving norway's fjords. turkish delight for syrian refugees. and why the amber of poland is more than just a trinket. but first the northern english town of rotherham. a place, which for many of us from the u.k., has become synonymous with one thing -- a shocking sex abuse scandal. for a decade-and-a-half, hundreds of vulnerable teenage girls, many of them underage, were groomed and sexually abused by gangs of men. and what made the case even more disturbing is that many of the people who were supposed to protect the girls ignored what was going on. some police officers even blamed the girls themselves for the abuse. and because many of the perpetrators were of pakistani origin, some officials turned a blind eye, because they were nervous of being branded as racist. but now, one of the survivors is using her traumatic experience to help other victims. >> rotherham is a typical northern industrial tow

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