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By Steve Swann & Wesley Stephenson
BBC News
The north Wales seaside town of Rhyl is one of the most violent and deprived areas in England and Wales. The number of serious offences went up every year for four years until the first coronavirus lockdown, BBC research has found.
One of Boris Johnson s key policies when he was elected prime minister was to end the deep-rooted inequalities between richer and poorer parts of the country, starting with crime - and nowhere is that challenge clearer than in Rhyl.
In the first of a series of reports tracking the progress of the government s levelling up agenda, BBC News looks at how one town is trying to change.