内容摘要：He said: "As I was painting, so many people were coming up to me asking 'who are they', as the band is unrecognisable as they are today."

He said: "As I was painting, so many people were coming up to me asking 'who are they', as the band is unrecognisable as they are today."

This week, the issue was again raised in the Commons, with Conservative frontbencher Katie Lam was among MPs demanding updates on the local inquiries."Over three months since the Government announced these local inquiries, Tom Crowther KC, a barrister invited by the Home Office to help establish them, knows almost nothing about their progress, and neither do we," she told the Commons.

Responding, Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips said councils will be able to access a £5m fund to support locally-led work on grooming gangs."Following feedback from local authorities, the fund will adopt a flexible approach to support both full independent local inquiries and more bespoke work, including local victims' panels or locally-led audits into the handling of historic cases," she said.Phillips also announced a child protection authority will be created to address another of the central recommendations of IICSA, as well as doubling funding for national services which support adult survivors of child sexual abuse.

However, Tory MP Robbie Moore said he was "completely infuriated" by the update from Phillips, who he said had "all but admitted that no real progress whatsoever has been made on their promise to launch five local rape gang inquiries before Easter".A survivor of child sexual exploitation, Lucia Rea, told GB News government backtracking was a "betrayal" of survivors hoping for justice and undermined the "very little" trust there was in the first place.

She said: "The five [local inquiries] weren't enough and to think that four of them have now been excluded, and only one town is going to receive what is due, and even that's not statutory, so that's still not good enough."

But a Home Office spokesperson said decisive action was being taken to finally tackle grooming gangs.She has now been paired with Zena Meacham, who lives in Stourport-on-Severn.

"She is really stepping up to the mark and giving me my independence back," her new owner said.Ms Meacham was born with retinoblastoma and is "totally blind" but she said the new addition to her family had transformed her life.

"Yukiko is my third guide dog and she's no different from my last two dogs - you wouldn't be able to tell that she's travelled from Japan," she added."Now that I’ve got Yukiko, or Kiko as we call her, I'm able to get the bus into Stourport, without having to rely on friends or my husband to take me."