5 Live Investigates

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. Also, the companies that have had their corporate identity stolen by fraudsters. And... the cancer patients being forced to pay for part of their treatment.

Delays in ambulance response times in the East of England are putting lives at risk, says a whistle blower paramedic. He's been despatched in a car in response to some 999 calls - but when he's called for back-up, it's taken a long time for a fully-crewed ambulance to arrive. He's attended two patients that have died and he suspects the delays were partly to blame.

5 Live Investigates finds out what clubs in Leagues one and two really think of reforms to the football academy system. As two clubs close their academies, could the new system be hurting lower teams at the expense of growing Premiership talent?

Plus as fraud costs the UK economy an estimated £73 billion a year, small businesses complain that police are failing to investigate the crime.

Why are hospital trusts failing to share information about doctors' poor performance with the General Medical Council and other NHS trusts, allowing some doctors to travel throughout the system without check?

Plus how a lack of regulation in the lettings market means some landlords and tenants are falling victim to unscrupulous agents.

Care and health workers are failing to follow proper procedure before curtailing the freedoms of patients suffering from brain injuries or dementia. Also - the training company accused of cashing in on the rush to update IT skills.

It's been described as the new metal theft... the thieves stealing used cooking oil to make bootleg bio-fuel. Up to one fifth of all used cooking oil is ending up with criminals. Plus - police estimate that almost half of the UK traffic on the dark web is generated by paedophiles communicating and posting child abuse images.

The anti-racist campaign group Kick It Out rejects criticism from football fans that it's been ineffective in tackling racism in the game. A survey of 2,500 fans by researchers at Loughborough University has found that four out of five of the fans believed the group had failed to eradicate racism from the game. But Lord Herman Ouseley says it is unfair to lay the blame with a small group comprised mainly of volunteers.

A lawyer says motorists caught breaking variable speed limits on some stretches of motorway may be able to get their conviction overturned. Prosecutors believed the signs did not comply with traffic regulations - and had the status of advisory rather than mandatory signs. Motoring solicitor Marcus Johnstone said drivers stood a 'favourable' chance of getting their cases reviewed in the Magistrates Court. The variable speed signs were introduced since 2006 - and have resulted in thousands of convictions.

The 101 year old marathon runner Fauja Singh is a hero in his native India and his adopted home of Britain. Nobody older has finished the race - yet Mr Singh is not in the Guinness Book of Records. 5 live Investigates finds out why some experts refuse to accept his claim to be the world's oldest marathon runner. Plus Adrian Goldberg hears about the woman whose attempts to claim "prizes" has cost her £500,000. And the team investigates the latest money making scheme of a "property guru" who went bust.

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.

Plus, dog meat in Spanish dog food: the latest discovery in the contaminated meat story.