Tonight

ITV1's Tonight strand re-launches, in a new weekly Thursday night slot, with News at Ten's Julie Etchingham taking over the reins as the programme's presenter. This evening, Tonight looks at the impact of the inquest into Fiona Pilkington's death and asks why tackling neighbourhood anti-social behaviour seems such a hard nut to crack.


Like the late Mrs. Pilkington, Asher Nardone is a mother coping with a severely disabled child and has suffered four years of serious anti-social behaviour on her housing estate, "It's like living in a war zone," she tells Etchingham, adding, "we were already a beaten, broken family that were scrambling around trying to pick our lives up and instead of people wanting to help us and lend us a hand, they just wanted to stamp on us and they just wanted to crush us." Mrs Nardone is just one of a growing army of people around the country whose lives have been blighted by yobs, but who have decided to make a stand and fight back.


Producer: Gregor Stewart
Series editor: Dave Warren
Executive Producer: Alexander Gardiner

Last edited: Thursday, 10 December 2009