内容摘要：He said his council was "open-minded" about both options for now but expected to declare support for one option in May, prior to the county submitting its final proposal to the government.

He said his council was "open-minded" about both options for now but expected to declare support for one option in May, prior to the county submitting its final proposal to the government.

Burrows had been granted bail at an earlier court hearing, a decision that was not unusual, according to Det Insp Eleanor Atkinson, who led the 2024 investigation.When police went to his home in Birmingham, they discovered he had recently arranged to sell his car, which along with other clues led them to conclude he had been planning an escape. But there was no hint as to where he had gone.

There were appeals in the media, including three on the BBC's Crimewatch programme, which prompted other victims to come forward, but didn't succeed in locating Burrows.David - not his real name - saw one Crimewatch appeal in 2011, which he said sent him into "a rage" and led to him reporting what had happened to him as a 13-year-old.By 2024, it was 13 years after the last national TV appeal and more than 50 years after Burrows began his abuse, but one officer had the idea of using a website to search for him.

This was a website that any member of the public can subscribe to - not some specialist tool for police or security services.PimEyes uses AI facial recognition technology to crawl the web looking for similar photos.

So detectives uploaded Burrows's 1997 custody mugshot into PimEyes and it found multiple photos of an aged Richard Burrows from his retirement party in 2019, complete with a telltale pimple on his neck.

The photos were on the website of a newspaper based in Phuket, which named him not as Richard Burrows but as Peter Smith.That's because it usually means people are spending more, extra jobs are created, more tax is paid, and workers get better pay rises.

When GDP is falling, it means the economy is shrinking - which can be bad news for businesses and workers.If GDP falls for two quarters in a row,

, which can lead to pay freezes and job losses.Many economists and politicians are concerned that the UK economy is not growing fast enough.