This is the BBC.

Thank you for downloading from our home correspondent. I'm Michelle Hussein.

Our pieces this time include a journey joining a milkman on his rounds as they suddenly get more

popular, but will the trend last? Where in Northern Ireland to see how social attitudes are

part of the divisions between communities.

On Swansea Bay, we look at the proposed site of the world's first tidal lagoon power plant

and how the Garden of England has an industrial heritage.

First, though, the state of our prisons. Just last month, the government was ordered

to make immediate improvements at Nottingham Jail, after the chief inspector of prisons

described it as being in a dangerous state. But it's far from the only one where conditions have

been deteriorating, some to a shocking extent.

Michael Buchanan has seen that firsthand as the BBC's social affairs correspondent,

and he's been reflecting on the consequences of the decline and what it reveals about us as a nation.

We Brits can be a vicious bunch.

Our sense of humour, for instance, is often a brutal one-liner at someone else's expense.

Or we rejoice at the downfall of unfortunate celebrities, who for some reason are deemed to have become too full of themselves.

But perhaps nowhere is that viciousness more apparent than our attitude to prisoners.

We lock up more people than anywhere else in Western Europe, and then we spend less on prisoners

than most comparable countries. This is effectively British penal policy, and there isn't

much public pressure to change it. That attitude, however, coupled with a necessary closed nature of a prison,

has meant that hidden behind those high walls, terrible things have been happening.

For the past few weeks, I've had the grim misfortune to have investigated HMP Liverpool,

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