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Police go off message on troubled Newcastle estate

Chris Jackson | 16:58 UK time, Monday, 8 November 2010

We've another interesting mix of stories on the latest episode of Inside Out which is on Ö÷²¥´óÐã1 at 7.30pm on 08 November 2010.

Hayley Adamson

The lead story is about the tensions between the police and some members of the local community in .
It follows the death of teenager as she crossed the road in 2008.

An officer was heard to say: "that's one less Scotchy scum bag".

This was revealed after internal documents were obtained by Inside Out. have apologised to the family and told us the officer involved is facing disciplinary action.

But how does a community and the local police re-establish trust and respect?

Let me know what you think by adding your comments to this blog.

Also in the programme we feature at the only which is in Cumbria.

When we last filmed with her we also had her on a horse on . A dog ran up and bit her horse on the leg. It reared and threw poor Kirsten to the ground.

Full marks to her though. When we rather sheepishly said we'd like her to present another one of our stories, on errrr, ahem, horses she didn't flinch.

And if you liked the work of County Durham's own pitman painter Tom Lamb, you can browse some of his artwork in . There are also some video extras with Tom on our programme page.


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