Six jailed for running 'conveyor belt' brothels exploiting young Romanian women
2020-11-28
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Five men and one woman have been jailed for running a brothel which exploited young Romanian women to be sex workers.
The gang’s business model was to advertise the sexual services of young women on the internet, and then move them from town to town across Lancashire - including towns near Bury.
“We want to offer help and advice for people who think they may be victims of hu .....
Kate Lister who worked to commemorate sex workers listed for Times Higher Education award
2020-09-14
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Dr Kate Lister set up a project with students to commemorate the 17 women murdered in Leeds and Bradford between 1978 and 2010 who were working as sex workers at the time. Among them are women killed by Peter Sutcliffe in the late 1970s and 1980s, as well as Daria Pionko, 21, who was murdered by Lewis Pierre in Leeds in December 2013.
She has now been shortlisted for the Tim .....
Support offered to Bradford sex worker who thought she had Covid 19
2020-08-20
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A PUBLIC health boss has told Councillors of the work being done to protect Bradford's marginalised communities during the Covid-19 pandemic, revealing that a sex worker was offered support when she thought she may have the virus.
She said such groups would not necessarily engage with statutory health services, so it was important they were offered support through outreach work. .....
Sex workers' heartache is exposed in Band of Gold at Nottingham Theatre Royal
2020-01-18
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A review of the play 'Band of Gold'.
From the moment a minimalistic set slides into place and reveals Bradford’s red-light district, with Gaynor Faye’s hardened sex worker, Rose proclaiming ‘no one works the Lane without my permission’ – we enter a world of sleaze and crime. .....