Hartlepool

Northern faster service between Middlesbrough and Newcastle

Twelve new services will be operated by Northern between the two stations, starting on Sunday, December 10. They will initially call at Thornaby[1] and Sunderland[2] and a stop at Hartlepool will be introduced as soon as the station works are complete …

Met Office issues rain warning across already flooded North East

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for rain across the North East, after several areas were already hit by floods.
The alert from the forecasters says there is a chance of power cuts and loss of other services to some homes and business…

HS2 is dead – long live Network North

The government has promised, for the umpteenth time in four decades, to dual the A1 between Morpeth and Ellingham – this time from part of the £36bn savings from scrapping high-speed rail (HS2) between Birmingham and Manchester.
It has also said it wil…

‘Beacon of hope’ for lobsters after mass die off

Almost 1,000 young lobsters have been released into the North Sea this week, as part of a project which aims to restore the population after thousands of crustaceans died in mysterious circumstances.
Whitby[1] Lobster Hatchery said the juvenile lobste…

Middlesbrough Development Corporation contracts out planning …

The new Middlesbrough Development Corporation (MDC) has dispensed with the town’s in-house planning department and will spend £1mn a year on transferring the planning department role for its territory to Lichfields, according to Teesside Live[1].
It is…