At lunchtime Vallance Gardens resembles a pleasant square in multicultural London. Children kick a football around, veiled Asian women stop to greet each other, and office workers munch on sandwiches. But all is not as it seems.
"You'd be surprised," says a young person at my side. "This is the frontline. A lot of things happen here. Over there you have Bethnal Green, over here is Brick Lane and on that side is Brady Street - so this is the centre, where the gangs meet." We're in the heart of Bangladeshi east London, talking to a project that reaches out to marginalised young people.
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