The video posted online has gone viral through local social media groups 2nd August 2026 Disturbing footage understood to have been recorded following Saturday’s Open Jar Tribute Festival in Seaton Carew has prompted calls for an investigation into the conduct of people believed to have been working as the events security team. Video supplied exclusively to the Teesside & Durham Post shows an unnamed individual on the ground while several people wearing high-visibility clothi

Questions Raised Over £1.75m Business Rates Debt Owed to Hartlepool Council.. 2nd August 2026 Hartlepool Borough Council is said to be braced for the news that it expects to recover only around £450,000 of the more than £1.75 million pounds debt it’s claimed to be owed following the collapse of Liberty Pipes (Hartlepool) Limited, according to the company’s newly filed statement of affairs. Hartlepool Borough Council appears in the company’s list of unsecured creditors with th

Former Officer PC Smythe, Pictured Here when he was a PCSO for Harrogate Police Tried to Destroy and Conceal Evidence, Misconduct Panel Finds 31st July 2026 A former police officer would have been dismissed from Cleveland Police without notice after a misconduct hearing found that he assaulted a witness on two occasions before then attempting to destroy and conceal evidence held on his mobile phone. Former PC 2522 Daniel Smythe was found to have committed gross misconduct fol