5 live Investigates

Why are supporters - especially those who travel to away games - being routinely treated as potential criminals by the police? One group of visiting fans tells Adrian Goldberg who they were banned from a pre-match get together at a church. Plus, on drugs and on the road, a lorry driver says colleagues at one international firm are taking illegal substances.

The 'draconian'rules controlling use of Olympic brand and date 2012:banned sausages in shape of Olympic rings, and exhibition celebrating best of British which had to fight off 7 lawyers. Also, how heart attack care has improved but heart failure care hasn't. And the bailiff company being investigated by trading standards for unjustified payments.

The pounds for points scam that allows dangerous drivers to stay behind the wheel by getting someone else to take the rap for their speeding offences. The teachers suspended over school equipment leasing scam first reported on by Investigates earlier this year. And the water companies failing to meet their leakage targets.

Some care homes are being denied basic level of NHS care and GPs are refusing to visits. Homes complain that even when a retainer is paid doctors are reluctant to attend. Also, the 'industrial scale' perjury by expert witnesses who lied in court about car hire charges in insurance disputes.

Fraudsters are costing the motor insurance industry £60 million a year by exploiting the system that gives drivers a replacement hire car if they're involved in a road smash.

Is it easier to avoid paying care home fees and get the state to pay in some areas than others? Elderly people in need of residential care receive no financial help from the local authority if their assets, including their homes, are worth more than £23,250. It's led to some estate planners advising families how to hide their assets and get the state to fund care instead. But these families risk legal action from councils if they can prove individuals have deliberately deprived themselves of assets to avoid the cost of care. Adrian Goldberg reveals which local authorities are clamping down on the practice and those which aren't. Plus, the payday loan company that threatened customers it might contact their employer if they didn't settle their debts.

A former senior investigator with the privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office speaks to Adrian Goldberg and criticises his former employers for not doing more to stamp out malpractice by the media years before the hacking scandal broke. Since last November the Leveson Inquiry has been hearing evidence about media ethics in the wake of the hacking scandal. Much of the media's focus has been on high profile celebrity witnesses and their accounts of their treatment at the hands of the press. But the role of the Information Commissioner's Office that's emerged through evidence to the Inquiry has been largely overlooked. Adrian Goldberg asks why more action wasn't taken when the ICO was investigating links dating back to 2002 between journalists and the private detectives who provided them with illegally obtained private details about celebrities, politicians and ordinary members of the public.

Under the last government, £2.2 billion was spent regenerating areas in the north of England and the Midlands to make them more attractive to new homeowners in what were known as Pathfinder schemes. Eight years into the initiative, the Coalition Government scrapped it because, it was argued, instead of rejuvenating local communities, there had been an obsession with demolition. Adrian Goldberg investigates what's happened to the families stuck between the policies of two governments and left marooned in desolate streets. And he asks why, despite promises against further demolition, yet more taxpayers' money is being spent knocking down homes.

The dark web: a hidden part of the internet where paedophiles, drug dealers and gun smugglers can ply their trade without fear of being identified. Supporters of it say it's played a key role in facilitating free speech for people living under oppressive regimes but critics fear it's being exploited by sophisticated criminal gangs operating under the radar of the authorities.

Adrian Goldberg investigates the millions of pounds local authorities spend every year sending children to and from school in taxis. Rural areas spend disproportionately more on cabs for pupils because of the lack of public transport but should the taxpayer be subsidising the lifestyle choice of some young families? And should councils be paying for taxis for pupils just because they’ve been excluded from their local schools? Plus: why thousands of patients dispensed counterfeit drugs on the NHS in the largest ever case of its kind have yet to identified or informed.

Businesses are avoiding paying full rates on empty property by exploiting a tax loophole. Some businesses are moving in charities as tenants, who qualify for an 80% discount on their rates for doing as little as hanging up posters in shop windows. Plus: the controversial US SOPA bill plans to crack down on online piracy. 5 live Investigates speaks to the co-founder of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, who has been at the forefront of the anti-SOPA campaign. Joining the disucssion is the Chris Marcich, president of the Motion Picture Association, Europe.

How wisely is taxpayers' money being spent on government-backed apprenticeships? This week the programme investigates one scheme set up by ex-Welsh football international Mark Aizlewood which was meant to train teenagers to become sports coaches. The company - Luis Michael Training - was awarded around £6 million by eight further education colleges to deliver the scheme at football clubs up and down the country. Two thousand young people signed up - but many failed to get their qualifications. Hundreds of trainees have been left out of pocket and the company is now in liquidation. Was the scheme properly scrutinised by the colleges and the government's Skills Funding Agency? We ask who's to blame for the failure and what happened to all the money.

Schools across the UK have been caught-out in an I.T leasing scam which experts say could cost hundreds of millions of pounds. Adrian Goldberg speaks to one school which unwittingly signed-up to a lease agreement for over £700,000 worth of computer equipment. Also: Google Ads making money from unlawful 2012 Olympic ticket firms.

Manchester and neighbouring Salford is the counterfeit capital of the UK, distributing fake and sometimes dangerous goods across the UK. Industry advisers say not enough is being done to tackle the trade now estimated to cost £1.3bn a year.

The cargo ship that sank off the North Wales coast with the loss of 5 crewmen had been at the centre of repeated safety concerns, according to a BBC 5 Live investigation. Controversy in the world of wrestling after it's revealed that Britain's Olympics hopefuls may not get their passports in time. Why the promised train carriages are not on our railways, and more on the small businesses trying to get government contracts.