Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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As more than 200 extra Police are sent to Middlesbrough after violence linked to last weekend’s A66 crash, James O’Brien asks: What’s going on?

Seven people, including two police officers, died in the crash near Middlesbrough on Saturday and soon after a house dire claimed the lies of a woman and a seven year-old girl.

James O’Brien tries to get to the bottom of the violence and digs into the gang culture that may have led to a ‘culture of fear’.

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