Billy Fane

Gerry and Sewell are broke. Gerry's still at school and Sewell is unemployed. They both wish for better things in life. Owning two season tickets to their beloved football club is their biggest dream of all. The tickets cost £1000 - they're £1000 short. But they are nothing if not resourceful, and they set themselves a mission to raise the cash. While they think up increasingly outlandish money making schemes - from selling junk to shoplifting and the odd bit of housebreaking - real life begins to interfere with the pair's final scam going hilariously awry landing them in jail, only to discover that their punishment gets them exactly where they want to be!

1974: Against the backdrop of a violent miners strike in their quiet Northumbrian village, a likeable teenage artist falls in love with the new girl from London, but their tempestuous relationship and attempts to escape cause him to betray his family, community and best friends; he becomes dangerously embroiled in the rioting of the strike. With attempts to reconcile them failing, he must choose between his old friends and his new love.

Dans un petit village minier du Nord‐Est de l’Angleterre, Billy, 11 ans, découvre avec stupeur qu’un cours de danse partage désormais les mêmes locaux que son club de boxe. D’abord effaré, il devient peu à peu fasciné par la magie de la gestuelle du ballet, activité pourtant trop peu virile au regard de son père et de son frère Tony, mineurs en grève. Billy abandonne les gants de cuir pour assister discrètement aux leçons de danse professées par Mme Wilkinson. Repérant immédiatement un talent potentiel, elle retrouve une nouvelle énergie devant les espoirs que constitue Billy. Les frustrations larvées explosent au grand jour quand son père et son frère découvrent que Billy a dépensé l’argent consacré au cours de boxe pour des cours de danse. Partagé entre une famille en situation de crise et un professeur de ballet têtu, le jeune garçon embarque alors dans un voyage à la découverte de lui‐même.

Byker Grove was a British television series which aired between 1989 and 2006 and was created by Adele Rose. The show was broadcast at 5.10pm after Newsround on CBBC on BBC One. It was aimed at an older teenager and young adult audience, tackling serious and sometimes controversial storylines.

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.