130 jobs at risk as Mandelson-linked lobbying giant implodes Ex Hartlepool Labour MP Peter Mandelson's firm which he originally founded collapses after clients flee in Epstein scandal fallout... 19th Feb 2026 The lobbying and strategic advisory firm originally founded by former Hartlepool MP Peter Mandelson is on the brink of collapse, after a dramatic loss of major corporate clients in the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Global Counsel , which employs about 130 staff ac

The Road to Section 114: How Hartlepool’s Finances Are Running Out of Time Ticking Time Bomb: The £6m Overspend That Could Break Hartlepool Borough Council 19th Feb 2026 Hartlepool Borough Council's staring into a financial abyss as a spiraling children’s social care bill threatens to consume the councils already fragile budget and force some of the deepest cuts to frontline local services since 2013. Town hall leaders are now said to be grappling with an overspend of around

Labours Council Tax Freeze Fantasy ends in Poised maximum Council Tax Increase for locals. Labours hold on Hartlepool Borough Council expected to collapse within days, after Treasury rejects bailout for Hartlepool Borough Council. 18th Feb 2026 H artlepool Borough Council’s failed bid for a Government bailout to cover its £6 million children’s services overspend has been further overshadowed by claims that ministers immediately rejected the cap in hand bid by Hartlepool Borou

Council Tax Rise Looms as Children’s Care Costs Push Hartlepool to the Edge Town Hall Meltdown: As Twenty One Hartlepool Labour Councillors All Threaten to Quit the Labour Party, as a poised Council Tax Freeze cannot be delivered to local's... 17th Feb 2026 TEESSIDE & DURHAM POST EXCLUSIVE A political earthquake's unfolding inside Hartlepool Borough Council, after the councils Labour leadership warned it's getting ready to 'walk away' from the party in protest at what it's br

The former Admiral Court Nursing Home in Cleveland Rd Hartlepool Future of Fire-Damaged Admiral Court Site in Doubt After Council Pulls Demolition Proposal 17th Feb 2026 P lans to demolish a long-derelict nursing home in Hartlepool's West View have been quietly withdrawn, raising fresh questions over the future of one of town's most blighted sites. Hartlepool Borough Council submitted proposals in October last year seeking permission to bring down the former care facility, wh

NHS Strategy Confirms Centralised Emergency Care Will Stay Away From Hartlepool NHS Strategy Confirms Centralised Emergency Care Will Stay Away From Hartlepool 17th Feb 2026 H opes for the restoration of a full Accident and Emergency department to Hartlepool have been dealt a major blow after NHS chiefs confirmed there are no plans for a new emergency unit in the town, telling councillors the financial and clinical case for such a move “does not reflect the need”. The stark

Labour Run Hartlepool Borough Council left in a quandary as to how it intends to fund its poised Council Tax freeze for locals Labour at War With Itself as Council Tax Freeze Plans Unravel and Funding Row Explodes 17th Feb 2026 A bitter internal dispute has erupted within Hartlepool’s Labour group after the political groups much-trailed council tax freeze descended into chaos, exposing the town to the prospect of sharp financial pain in the years ahead, triggering an extraor

Ex-Hartlepool councillor Tom Cassidy censured over misleading leaflet bids for Rural West comeback Standards row councillor selected as Conservative candidate for Hartlepool's Rural West Ward in May Local Elections... 16th Feb 2026 A former Hartlepool councillor who was formally found to have breached the councils Code of Conduct over a misleading council tax election leaflet has announced his political return after putting himself forward as the Conservative candidate for t