Inside Out North East & Cumbria

Chris Jackson investigates the drug sales on Teesside targeting children online, Tyneside's dance supremo Stuart Hatton Jnr encourages the dance world to embrace same-sex couples, and we follow the runners proving you're never to old to race on the Cumbrian Fells.

Meet the north east entrepreneur making a mint out of trainers, the Tyneside drag queens who are not just playing it for laughs, and the forgotten engineer who helped light up Britain.

We meet the prison officers assaulted on duty, head out with authorities tackling slave labour in the north east, and see how the Lake District is working its magic on veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder

Why do so many northern men take their own lives? Clarke Carlisle says we need to talk; Chris Jackson tries life as a barman to find out why so many pubs are closing and we meet the woman fighting to save the Lake District's fell ponies

Gareth Barlow joins teams protecting birds of prey from persecution in the north, and novelist Adele Parks comes to Teesside to see the help on offer for people struggling to read.

Dying for a burger? Are exhaust fumes at drive-throughs putting workers at risk? And why some abused women seeking help in the north say the government has abandoned them

The latest eyes on the road. Is dashcam a force for good in catching rogue drivers? Meet the Tyneside man searching to cure a rare and debilitating condition. And a team from Newcastle United finally lift silver - we meet the inspirational players showing amputation is no barrier to success.

We track down the man behind property scandals stretching from Durham to Detroit and meet the Tyneside man searching for a cure for a rare,
debilitating condition.

Is there a crisis on the Tyne and Wear Metro? Passengers give their verdict

And we meet the first would be doctors to come out of Sunderland's new medical school

Meet the North East and Cumbria's front line care workers battling the pandemic - and find out what happened next on Inside Out stories from
the last year.