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		</div><p>Two Rotherham Labour MPs have each won £40,000 in their libel action against a Ukip politician about remarks he made about the town&#8217;s child sexual exploitation scandal.</p>
<p>Kevin Barron, MP for Rother Valley and John Healey, who represents Wentworth and Dearne, sued Caven Vines, who was Ukip&#8217;s leader on Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, over a live Sky News interview in January 2015.</p>
<p>Last year, Mr Justice Warby entered judgment against Mr Vines after concluding he had failed to put forward any defence which could possibly succeed.</p>
<p>At London&#8217;s High Court on Wednesday, the judge said that the &#8220;offensive and wrong&#8221; allegation that the MPs knew for years most of what was going on by way of large-scale sexual abuse &#8211; and let it go on despite such knowledge &#8211; had caused them &#8220;real anger and distress&#8221;.</p>
<p>He said that an appropriate award to vindicate their reputations and compensate them for the harm done was £40,000 each.</p>
<p>Mr Vines, who plans to appeal and says he is facing bankruptcy, was also ordered to pay £30,000 on account of costs which are estimated to be at least £70,000.</p>
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