5 live Investigates

How do staff shortages in A+E and other high-pressured hospital environments impact on patient care? A BBC investigation has found that 1 in 10 A+E posts is vacant and filling them with locums and agency staff risks patient safety, says a patient pressure group.

In four months time, all 16 and 17 year olds in England will have to be in education or training. But are schools and colleges sufficiently prepared for the influx of extra students?

Thousands of hours of emergency ambulance time each week is lost because crews have to queue to offload patients at A+E. It means they can't respond to new 999 calls.

Patients at risk as the East of England ambulance service struggles to respond to emergency calls.

Changes to England’s Football youth academies could affect lower league clubs. Could an attempt to improve the England team mean lower league clubs lose out financially? Plus as fraud costs the UK economy £73 billion a year, small businesses complain that police are failing to investigate the crime.

Some hospital trusts are failing to share information which could identify doctors who make repeated mistakes - sometimes with disastrous results.

Why are vulnerable people with dementia or brain injuries having their freedoms restricted, sometimes against their will. And the training companies which promise jobseekers help with employment, provided they pay an upfront fee.

Thieves are stealing used cooking oil to make bootleg bio-fuel and it's claimed one fifth of all used cooking oil is ending up in the hands of criminals.

A survey of 2,500 football fans suggests that racism still exists in football.

Lawyers are questioning the legality of thousands of penalties issued to motorists caught breaking motorway speed limits. It's emerged that warning signs on nine variable speed zones did not have official approval – and should not have been used to enforce the speed limit.

The catalogue cheque scam that's eating away the savings - and more - of thousands each week.

Customers of online dating sites owned by Cupid plc voice their suspicions about the flirty daters who mysteriously disappeared once they paid their subscriptions. Presenter Adrian Goldberg talks to men who received flirty messages from attractive daters claiming to live near them after signing up for free membership of online dating sites owned by Cupid plc. But when the men took out subscriptions in order to reply to the messages, the women, who once appeared so keen to meet, mysteriously lost interest. Some customers suspect that the website itself was behind the messages. Cupid plc owns over 30 different dating websites including cupid.com, benaughty.com, flirt.com, cheekylovers.com and maturedatinguk. It recently bought Uniform Dating and the right to operate Friends Reunited Dating.

Foreign nationals are making a full-time living by illegitimately selling same-day visa appointments because of long-standing problems with the UK Border Agency's online booking system. People wanting to take advantage of the premium same-day service to extend or renew their existing visas are resorting to buying appointments from unofficial agents operating from abroad. The costs can escalate to four times the price of an original appointment when individuals book through a Uk-based immigration specialist.

The metal investment scam that's costing savers the earth, and the GP surgeries forcing patients to pay premium rate phone lines.

Long-term unemployed on the Work Programme are being steered away from jobs, and instead told they can claim more in benefits by registering as self-employed than they could on the dole. Clients are sometimes told it doesn't matter if they don't have a viable business idea because they can simply claim working tax credits instead of unemployment benefits. What's more the private firms which deliver the scheme are getting taxpayer funded bonuses in the process.