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5 Live Investigates Episodes

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    Firefighters and Mental Illness

    The number of firefighters taking long-term sick leave due to mental illness has risen.

  2. School Transport Cuts

    Parents of disabled children forced to give up work to take their children to school.

  3. District Heating

    A Green heating system could be forcing some residents into fuel poverty.

  4. Coercive Control

    Looking at new figures on prosecutions for controlling and coercive behaviour.

  5. Restraint in special schools

    Hundreds of children have been hurt whilst being physically restrained in special schools.

  6. Fatal crash prosecutions down

    Prosecution rates for drivers who cause fatal road crashes have fallen sharply.

  7. Westminster Terror Attack

    How would the UK cope with a terror attack outside of London?

  8. Skin creams linked to fire deaths

    Adrian Goldberg investigates fire deaths linked to skin creams containing paraffin.

  9. Banned taxi drivers still on road

    Banned taxi drivers getting licences by applying to different local authorities.

  10. Babies at risk from 'Strep B' infection

    Cases of babies born infected with potentially deadly bacteria 'Strep B' are rising.

  11. Transgender teens 'denied' treatment

    Transgender teenagers say they have been refused NHS treatment.

  12. Fire dispatch system delays

    New computerised dispatch system is causing fire engine delays.

  13. Antidepressants on the increase

    Huge rise in prescriptions for anti-depressants.

  14. Illegal charity bag collections

    The NSPCC is calling for an investigation into illegal doorstep charity bag collections.

  15. Care assessment delays

    Delays in social care assessments causing bed blocking crisis.

  16. Increase in DBS referrals

    Huge increase in referrals to barring service from sports sector.

  17. Ambulance call-outs

    Ambulance call-outs to prisons in England have risen by nearly 40 per cent in three years.

  18. No bed for 'dying' anorexia man

    Simon Rickards says he will die if he does not get in-patient treatment for anorexia.

  19. Fire brigade response times

    Fire brigade response times are getting slower.

  20. Paedophile Case Delays

    A paedophile was allowed to re-offend due to police delays.

  21. Eating Disorder Beds

    Family's 800-mile round trip to see daughter in eating disorder unit.

  22. NHS Patients Referred to Prevent

    Hundreds of NHS patients and staff referred to government's counter-terrorism programme.

  23. Accessible Homes

    The 300,000 people with disabilities living in unsuitable accommodation.

  24. Cricket Umpire Abuse

    Umpires in amateur cricket are giving up the game because of verbal and physical abuse.

  25. Police Strip Searches

    A suspect is strip-searched by police in London every 20 minutes.

  26. Prescription Drug Addiction

    The BMA wants urgent action to tackle prescription drug addiction.

  27. Cancer 'Cure' Investigation

    An unlicensed and unproven treatment being illegally sold as a possible cure for cancer.

  28. Academies in Debt

    Debts run up by 113 academy trusts in England 'amount to almost 拢25m'.

  29. Online Antibiotics

    Some online pharmacies are selling antibiotics against national guidelines.

  30. Failures in Women's Mental Health

    Claims that thousands of women and girls with mental health problems are being failed.

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