Our once-booming town is benefits sinkhole where HALF of adults are out of work & feral kids torch homes with fireworks

KIDS as young as 14 sell heroin on the streets and gangs of rampaging youths set fire to houses as locals claim they are too frightened to go out for a Sunday roast.

In a once-booming town on County Durham – formerly touted as a beacon of welfare reform – a massive 46 per cent of the population are jobless. 

A boarded-up property in the poverty-stricken townNNP Many shops lie empty in the high streetNNP ITVA house suffered extensive damage in a recent arson attack in the...