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Benefits Street's 1,700 complaints: Calls, letters and emails accuse show of glamorising crime, promoting drug use and celebrating welfare dependency

Channel 4’s controversial Benefits Street documentary has now received more than 1,700 complaints as one of its stars was charged with drug and firearms offences.

The broadcaster and TV watchdog Ofcom have been deluged with calls, letters and emails from viewers who accused the five-part documentary of glamourising crime, promoting drug use and celebrating welfare dependency.