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BUSINESS leaders have met in Hartlepool to discuss idea to help build a “thriving North-East’.

Businesses meet to discuss future

FORGOTTEN film reels of firefighters in the 50s and 60s have been future-proofed in a bid to preserve history.

Did you know a firefighter of the 1950s or 60s? Vintage film unearthed of North-East fire crews at work

A MAN who followed a woman and stood in bushes before indecently exposing himself is being sought by police following three separate incidents.

Search for man behind three indecent exposure incidents across four-day period

A POSTCODE lottery facing residents living on two sides of an A-road over waste disposal charges has been condemned as unjustifiable.

Residents living on wrong side of road charged for waste disposal while others go free

A RACIST thug who told a takeaway delivery driver to “f*** off where you come from” before assaulting him is behind bars for what a judge said was carried out “simply because he was a foreigner”.

'F*** off where you came from' – what racist told takeaway driver before assault

CAMERA crews have buckled up for two more series of high-speed pursuits on North-East roads alongside the ever-popular Police Interceptors.

They're back! Filming begins for two new series of Police Interceptors

CLEVELAND Police has been heavily criticised in a damning report into the force’s misuse of laws aimed at investigating serious crime and terrorism to seize phone data to track down a whistle-blower.

Damning report into Cleveland Police's 'indefensible' misuse of 'snooping laws' is published

A CRIME gang which travelled from Darlington to steal high-value cars has left a family devastated after a break-in.

Thief targeted 'high-end cars' in house burglary just 10 days after dodging jail for similar crime

DRUG raids across the Cleveland Police force area have netted more than a million pounds worth of drugs in the first six months of this year.

More than £1m-worth of drugs seized in six-month period

A DEVASTATED family are at a loss to explain why their 13-year-old son was found dead at home.

13-year-old's death will always be a mystery: Coroner tells family 'I wish I could give you answers you need'