Welcome to the fifth audio edition of the Bylines Network podcast. Thank you to all of our writers for penning these great articles, to our readers for recording them, and to Julian Greenbank for editing! Please find the articles compiled for this edition linked below:

0:28 Climate crisis: time’s running out - Liyanah Riaz (North East Bylines)

6:05 Walsall Council facing wave of fury - Steve Pottinger (Central Bylines)

9:33 Mimmo Lucano Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison! - Hazel Pennington (West England Bylines) read by Steven Tomlin

13:38 The fires of London - Suzanne Fairless-Aitken (North East Bylines) read by Janine Birkett