Incidents involving woman next to northern backstreet (6)
I believe the answer is:
events
'incidents' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'woman next to northern backstreet' is the wordplay.
'woman' becomes 'eve' (Eve is an example).
'next to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'northern' becomes 'n' (abbreviation e.g. N. Ireland).
'backstreet' becomes 'ts' ('st' backwards).
'eve'+'n'+'ts'='EVENTS'
'involving' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for events that I've seen before include "Occurences, happenings" , "competition" , "Important or notable happenings" , "Incidents, occasions" , "Planned social occasions" .)