BBC regional current affairs programme Inside Out back on BBC One for 30th series

Inside Out launches on Monday 5 September with a Brexit special. The first episode of the series will look at how the recent vote to leave the EU may affect communities and businesses across England.

Mail On Sunday journalist Peter Hitchens meets voters in Boston in Lincolnshire - the town with the highest Brexit vote in the country. Inside Out North West also follows two MEPs as they go about their daily lives, questioning their roles now Britain has voted to leave the EU.

This series - the programme’s 30th - will also see reports on modern slavery, the diabetes epidemic and the future of Redcar’s steel plant. Inside Out also revisits the controversial Sports Direct warehouse to see what has changed for workers.

There will be a report on concerns about a cluster of brain tumours affecting former staff of the Staveley chemical works in Derbyshire and Inside Out meets a young Lithuanian man who was held as a slave working on a chicken farm in Kent.

In BBC South East, Brighton hip-hop duo Rizzle Kicks explain why their next single supports a mental health charity.

Last year the programme set the national news agenda with an exclusive report into conditions at the Sports Direct warehouse. The report by BBC Inside Out East Midlands led to an investigation by MPs into how Sports Direct treats its employees.

With exclusive interviews and agenda-setting news stories, the award-winning current affairs programme covers a wide range of topics and investigations. Bringing original and important stories to BBC One, Inside Out holds people to account on behalf of each local community and the nation.

Other stories across the country featuring in this series include:

• East: Inside Out gets exclusive access to Princess Diana’s birthplace, Park House Hotel, which is now a specialist hotel offering a rare service for people with disabilities
• South: Inside Out investigates why care homes across the south are starting to turn away local authority funded clients, saying the fees are not enough
• West Midlands: Should children be banned from heading footballs? Inside Out speaks to ex-Stoke player Andy Wilkinson, who has had to retire following concussion, and the family of Jeff Astle of West Bromwich Albion, who have been fighting on this issue since Jeff died of the effects of heading heavy leather footballs
• North East: Inside Out looks at how Redcar could follow the German model in reshaping the steel industry
• South West: The terrible toll of diabetes - Inside Out meets the man who tried to avoid a full-leg amputation by cutting off his own toes in the garden shed.

David Holdsworth, Controller of BBC English Regions, says: “It’s a really proud moment to see Inside Out in its 30th series. Since the first series aired in 2002 teams across the country have uncovered vital stories and explored the issues viewers care about in each region.

“Our investigations have revealed some of the most shocking realities taking place on our doorsteps and triggered political change. They have brought people to account and changed lives. This could not be more important as we enter the 30th series of Inside Out."

Inside Out is broadcast every Monday on BBC One across England and has 11 regional versions.

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