Former Barnsley Council leader Sir Steve Houghton will take on the special health devolution pilot for South Yorkshire.
It has emerged that Lord Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting, yet was appointed as US ambassador anyway.
Rotherham councillors have formally welcomed the government’s decision to hold a statutory inquiry into the Orgreave clashes of 1984, after a debate marked by a passionate speech from Councillor Brian Steele.
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