At HMP Preston, bestselling crime writer Lee Child is helping to put half a million books into the hands of prisoners across Britain. Clair Challenor-Chadwick visits the Victorian prison to discover whether the power of a good story might help break the cycle of disadvantage, crime and reoffending

Following the £14 million restoration of Durham Miners’ Hall and the return of the Redhills Assembly, Clair Challenor-Chadwick asks what this extraordinary experiment in grassroots democracy can teach us today – at a moment when power is once again being devolved fromWestminster to England’s regions

Fifteen years after her childhood home - a Victorian rectory turned celebrated hotel in Haughton Green in Manchester - was demolished for redevelopment, the site remains empty. Clair Challenor- Chadwick returns to Meadow Lane and asks what we lose when heritage disappears but development never comes