Putting a Lid on It: Seaton Meadows Landfill Could Be Capped for Good Buried in Trouble: Seaton Meadows Landfill Could Be Sealed as Operator Fights Environment Agency 23rd October 2026 The future of one of Hartlepool's most controversial landfill sites has taken another significant turn, after residents have reportedly been told that Seaton Meadows landfill located on the outskirts of Hartlepool could potentially be capped, sealed and restored rather than having enormous quan

Hartlepool Landfill Firm Faces Criminal Charges as Questions Mount Over Its Financial Future More Than Just Smoke in the Air: Financial Questions Surround Hartlepool's Controversial Landfill, As Criminal Charges Loom.... 22nd October 2026 The operator of one of Hartlepool’s most controversial landfill sites is facing criminal proceedings following a huge fire which occured back in 2024, as further scrutiny of its corporate affairs raises fresh questions about the site's futur

All Units Respond! Former Cleveland Sarge Accused of Getting Frisky Off the Beaten Track Cleveland Sarge's Saucy Stakeouts Come Back to Haunt Him as Former Sargeants Police Career Ends in Disgrace. 21st October 2026 A former Cleveland Police sergeant who appeared on the popular television programme Police Interceptors has been banned from policing after a Misconduct Panel found he'd committed gross misconduct following a long list of sexual encounters with a junior colleague

Focus on Failure: Hartlepool Removals Firm Goes Into Liquidation After Years of Financial Trouble A Move Too Far? Hartlepool Removals Firm Collapses Under Weight of Mounting Financial Troubles... 21st October 2026 A Hartlepool-based removals and storage company has entered creditors' voluntary liquidation after its most recently published accounts revealed huge financial liabilities, with more than £330,000 recorded as owing to creditors in 2024. Focus Removals & Storage/Tees

£101,000 in Reported Fuel Thefts — Yet Just 5% of Durham Cases Lead to Charges Eight in Ten Cases Closed Without a Suspect in Durham's Worst Year for Reported Fuel Theft 20th October 2026 Newly published police figures have revealed that more than 1,600 suspected fuel theft offences were recorded across the Durham Constabulary area over five years, yet barely five per cent of those cases resulted in a suspect being charged or summonsed to court. Figures released by Durham Con

Middlesbrough's HMO Epidemic? Shocking List Exposes Scale of Shared Housing Across Town Middlesbrough's HMO Epidemic? ... Shocking List Exposes Scale of Shared Housing Across The North East Town... 19th October 2026 The staggering scale of the sprawl of controversial HMO's across a Teesside Town has come under renewed scrutiny, after a local community group copntroversially published what they say is an extensive list of houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) housing five or mo

One of the Proposed new build properties in Wynyard on the Outskierts of Hartlepool Affordable for Whom? Believe Housing's £880-a-Month Property Sparks Questions 17th October 2026 A three-bedroom so called 'social housing property' being advertised in one of Hartlepool's most affluent residential developments has raised questions about the affordability of homes offered through the areas housing allocation scheme, with prospective tenants facing an eye-watering rent bill of m

Thirteen Eyes Control of Another 1,600 Homes as Questions Grow Over Its Housing Dominance Teesside Landlord Becoming Too Big to Challenge: Thirteen's Proposed Merger With Another Housing Corporation Raising Questions Over Social Housing Market Dominance. 17th October 2026 One of the North East’s largest so called 'social housing landlords' could be about to get even bigger, after its emerged the Middlesbrough-based Thirteen Housing Group is considering joining forces with ano