GOVERNMENT ministers and officials have discussed yob culture with North-East residents.
The Home Office held a question time session in Crowtree Leisure Centre, Sunderland, to celebrate the city's pioneering response to anti-social behaviour.
Sunderland City Council is the only local authority in the region that holds the Government's Trailblazer status for its work to curb youth nuisance and disorder.
Residents and organisations posed questions to panel members, which included Home Office Minister Hazel Blears, Louise Casey, director of the Anti-Social Behaviour Unit at the Home Office, Councillor Bryan Charlton, the deputy leader of Sunderland Council, Jim Campbell, the Chief Superintendent of Sunderland police, and Gladys Chilton, a Sunderland resident and community champion on one of Sunderland's most successful regeneration programmes.
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