Hawzah News Agency - A Dog trained to attack Muslims, child on child violence broadcast via social media and women having hijabs pulled from their heads are among hate-filled incidents reportedly suffered by North-East residents.

Brexit and terrorist attacks have contributed to a culture in which hate crime is rising year on year, experts and victims have suggested.

Every police force in our region has reported a rise in such crimes, with 4,148 incidents recorded as hate crimes last year.

Homophobic crimes in the North-East have raised by more than a third, with racist and anti-transgender attacks also linked to a six per cent rise in hate crime across the region – reflecting a 42 per cent increase in North Yorkshire, 12 per cent in Durham, two per cent in Cleveland and one percent in Northumbria.