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Sadness As Well-Known Hartlepool Company Shuts Its Doors...
Foster Laws Hartlepool Nine Jobs Affected As Long-Running Hartlepool Firm Foster Laws Closes 19th May 2026 A Hartlepool based metal works company which had been trading for nearly 60 years has closed its doors for the final time, after members for the company passed a resolution to voluntarily wind up the business. Foster Laws & Company Ltd, had been part of Hartlepool’s business community for almost 59 years, however its claimed at a General Meeting held late last month, mem
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Morrisons Shoppers Warned Of Empty Shelves As HGV Drivers Vote On Strike Action..
Morrissons in Stockton On Tees could be one of the sites set to be effected. Stockton Depot Named In Morrisons Strike Ballot Dispute... 18th May 2026 Morrisons customers across the north of England could face disruption after nearly 500 HGV drivers who supply the supermarket chain began voting on whether to take strike action. The drivers, who are employed by logistics firm Eddie Stobart, work from Morrisons distribution depots in Wakefield, Stockton-on-Tees and Northwich in
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South Tees Development Corporation Told Senior Officials’ Names Must Be Released...
The STDC Has Been Ordered To Hand Over Names Of Senior Officers After FOI Complaint Information Commissioner Ruling Means Senior Public Officials Details Cannot Be Shielded From Freedom of Information Requests... 17th May 2026 The South Tees Development Corporation has been ordered to disclose the names and job titles of senior internal officers after the Information Commissioner found it had gone too far in redacting parts of an Freedom of Information response. The decision,
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Senior Surgeon Wins Key Discrimination Claims Against Teesside NHS Trust...
North Tees Hospital, Stockton on Tees North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust Criticised in Employment Tribunal Judgment 17th May 2026 A senior surgeon on Teesside has succeeded in a race discrimination, harassment and victimisation claim against North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust in a case taking over 12 months before a reserved judgement was reached. The case, brought by Mr P Bhaskar, a Consultant General and Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon was heard by Newcastle Employm
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Teesside Housing Group Faces Questions Over £9.5m Housebuilding Deficit...
Teesside Housing Giant Thirteen Housing Groups Tenants Set Widely Expected to Shoulder Losses, Equivalent to £271 Per Home, After Housebuilder Deficit is Exposed... 15th May 2026 Tenants renting with Teesside Private Housing Giant Thirteen Housing Group could be left asking difficult questions, after accounts for one of its housebuilding subsidiaries revealed an eye-watering shareholder deficit of more than £9.5 million pounds — equivalent to around £271 for every home Thirte
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Hartlepool MP Delivers Blistering Commons Warning To Labour Leadership..
Hartlepool MP Warns Labour: Deliver Hope Or Let Populism Fill The Vacuum Hartlepool MP Demands Radical Change After “Roar Of Unbridled Anger” From Voters.. 15th May 2026 Labour MP for Hartlepool Jonathan Brash this week delivered one of his strongest parliamentary interventions yet against the leadership of Keir Starmer, telling the House of Commons that the Prime Minister can “no longer provide” the hope needed by communities such as Hartlepool. Labour lost its grip on Power
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Hartlepool ‘Bird Man’ Due In Court Over Alleged Breach Of Feeding Ban...
Brian Wilkins could be sent to Prison for allegedly breaching his Criminal Behaviour Order imposed by Hartlepool Borough Council back in 2025.. Court Date Set After Hartlepool Pensioner Allegedly Caught Feeding Birds Again 15th May 2026 A Hartlepool man previously fined for feeding wild animals is due to appear back at Teesside Magistrates Court again later this month accused of breaching a Criminal Behaviour Order where he's been warned he could face a possible Prison senten
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Just Who's Doing the Checks?: Rogue Landlord Concerns Grow After Yet Another Hartlepool Property Closure...
12 Elliott Street Hartlepool is linked to a well known town lettings agent Closure Order Sparks Fresh Questions Over Hartlepool’s Private Rented Sector After Second Property Linked to a Town Lettings Firm is Closed Down. 14th May 2026 Calls are growing for tougher action to be taken against rogue landlords and lettings agents in a North East Town, after community safety chiefs secured a closure order on a privately-rented Hartlepool property linked to crime, drugs and persis
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