High levels of unemployment and poverty have led to the north-east town suffering disproportionately with organised criminal networks and suspected gang wars. That escalated this week with a series of car rammings and a deadly house fire, leaving residents fearing for what comes next, as Holly Evans reports

The ugly scenes in Middlesbrough would not look out of place in a war zone. On Saturday, five youths and two police officers died in a head-on crash

High levels of unemployment and poverty have led to the north-east town suffering disproportionately with organised criminal networks and suspected gang wars. That escalated this…