Tagged with: 5 live Investigates
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Sexting amongst children 'epidemic'
David Lewis
Producer 5 live
Former Culture Secretary Maria Miller has told the programme sexting is an ‘epidemic’ which is on the increase and is spreading to primary schools. “It’s now frankly something that children accept as part of their everyday life right from primary school age and all the research shows it’s a growing trend,” said Mrs Miller.
People ‘imprisoned’ in homes by animal factory ‘meaty stench’
BBC Radio 5 live
As I stepped out my car at J G Pears animal rendering plant in Newark, Nottingham the smell hit me. Residents, who claim factory smells blight their life, told me the meaty stench was mild compared to what they often experience.
MPs call for fan power football in clubs
David Lewis
Producer 5 live
MPs call for fan power in football clubs
Sex offenders released from prison untreated 'pose a risk'
David Lewis
Producer 5 live
The NSPCC says there are insufficient sex offender treatment programmes for the number of people in jail for committing sex crimes.
Caught in the bus lane
David Lewis
Producer 5 live
5 live investigates finds some local authorities in England are disregarding the decisions of independent adjudicators over bus lanes.
Dogs 'stolen' from gardens, homes & cars
David Lewis
Producer 5 live
457 dogs were reported as stolen to the website DogLost, of which 46% were not reunited within 12 months, 5 live Investigates has found. This is out of a total of 7,262 dogs listed on the site during this time as either lost or reunited with their owners.
5 live Investigates: Assaults on taxi drivers by passengers
David Lewis
Producer 5 live
On average, more than 30 taxi drivers a year are subjected to the most savage assaults – wounding, attempted murder and murder, according to figures gathered by 5 live Investigates.
Parents and staff behaving badly at youth football games
BBC Radio 5 live
5 live Investigates asked the Football Association (FA) to compile figures on the number of parents and team staff behaving badly at youth games all over the country. Almost 4,000 misconduct offences have been committed by adults at youth level football between July 2012 and November 2013.
5 live Investigates: Racist and far-right online material
David Lewis
Producer 5 live
Our top story this week developed from the case of Pavlo Lapshyn, the white supremacist jailed in October for the murder of an elderly Muslim man returning home from his Mosque in Birmingham.
