Author: Stockton Advertiser

A SUSPECT in a pub burglary blitz tried to outrun police when they spotted him a week after his mini-crimewave.

POST Office workers are to stage five days of strikes next week in a dispute over jobs, pensions and branch closures.

FOUR masked men are being hunted after an armed robbery at a Teesside post office.

THE generosity of Teesside people is bringing festive cheer to vulnerable people.

A NORTH-East school has been named as the Best Educational Building in England and Wales for its technical innovation and craftsmanship.

A STOLEN van has been recovered after a police pursuit on Teesside.

A CCOUNCIL leader has heavily criticised a planning inspector’s decision to allow 200 more homes to be built on Europe’s largest housing estate, saying it makes a “mockery” of local decision making.

A MAN defied his girlfriend to get Jeremy Kyle tattooed on his bottom.

A CRACK cocaine addict who achieved notoriety by appearing on the television documentary ‘Benefits Street’ has been jailed for two and-a-half years for a series of assaults on his former partner.

LORD Heseltine said there were an extra 4,000 people in work in the Tees Valley more than a year on from the closure of SSI’s Redcar steel plant.