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Could Vision Retail Park Be Demolished for Housing? Questions Grow Over Future of Hartlepool Site
Retail Park or Residential? Questions Remain Over £3.4m Hartlepool Site Could Demolition Now Unlock the Value of Hartlepool’s Vision Retail Park? 24th Sep 2026 The proposed sale of Hartlepool’s Vision Retail Park has opened up a much bigger question over the future of the site — and whether the former retail units purched by the towns National Museum of the Royal Navy in a now stalled £25m pound project could eventually disappear altogether to make way for another major housi
Sep 243 min read


Asylum Figures Are Falling Claims Labour MP— So Why Are Locals Living in Hartlepool Waiting Longer For Homes?
The Number of People being Disqualified from the Housing Register in Hartlepool is Growing, as newcomers are handed keys to homes locals seemingly cannot get access to. If Things Are Getting Better According to Hartlepool Labour MP Jonathan Brash — Why Is Hartlepool’s Housing Queue Growing? 7th September 2026 Hartlepool’s MP Jonathan Brash has highlighted what seems to be encouraging-looking statistics, claiming that asylum accommodation numbers are down 18% locally, hotel us
Sep 75 min read


Losing Control of the Streets...
Burning Cars and Brazen Disorder: Teesside & County Durham’s Lawlessness Problem Has Been Years in the Making OPINION: The Police have simply Lost Control! Burning Cars, Gang Violence and a Dangerous Culture Cleveland Has Seen This Before… 28th August 2026 The sight of vehicles burning in a County Durham field as part of an apparent tribute to one of the men killed in the A66 tragedy should trouble anybody who cares about law and order across the region and comes just days af
Aug 285 min read


Smaller Independent News Outlets Are Under Threat — But Not From the Free Speech Brigade..
Local Independent Outlets are increasingly seeing their stories being published elsewhere without their knowledge or Permission
Jun 134 min read


Opinion: Nearly a Month Into Reform Rule, Hartlepool Council’s Flags Remain Untouched
Hartlepool Reform Faces First Test Over Pride and Ukraine Flags
Jun 64 min read


A Question of Justice: Has Hartlepool Borough Council Gone Too Far?
Is Justice Becoming Too 'One-Sided' When Local Councils Go to Court?
May 314 min read


Labour MP Condemns Street Abuse — But The Politics Behind The Post Faces Scrutiny'..
Jonathan Brash Says He Was 'Verbally Abused' In Tesco Incident As Political Questions Follow Jonathan Brash Says 'He Was Verbally Abused In Public' — But Is Hartlepool Politics Becoming A Stage?.. 24th May 2026 Hartlepool MP Jonathan Brash this week accused a member of the public of verbally abusing him, with Mr Brash claiming he was verbally targeted by the unknown member of the public while leaving his local Tesco store after doing his family shopping. In the post published
May 245 min read


Opinion: Deflection, Denial, and Defeat: The Brash Legacy in Hartlepool
Voters Snap: Hartlepool Sends Labour Packing After Cronyism Scandal Brash Family Under Fire as Hartlepool Rejects Old Labour Tricks... 10th May 2026 Reeling from a humiliating defeat to Reform UK this week, Labour turned to its local affiliated newspaper in an attempt to shift the responsibility for its losses onto members of the public..True to form, the party insisted the fault lay elsewhere, with the focus quickly shifting to claims of alleged misogynistic abuse faced by t
May 92 min read


From Labour to Reform to Expelled: The Political Gamble That Sensationally Backfired...
Reform UK’s Hartlepool Gamble Turns Into a huge Own Goal Reform’s Hartlepool 'Lifeboat' Is Already Taking on Water... 2nd May 2026 There is an old saying in politics that defections tell you as much about the person jumping ship as they do about the party taking them in. In Hartlepool, Reform UK may now be learning that lesson the hard way. Just weeks ago, Cllr Aaron Roy’s move from Labour to Reform UK was presented as another sign of Labour’s weakening grip in the town. For
May 24 min read


Opinion: Still Think Hartlepool's on the Up Mr Brash..? : Thugs Mock Police as Crime Spirals Out of Control
The Incident in Catcote Rd Hartlepool Yesterday has highlighted just how crime on Teesside has exploded into lawlessness. Image Credit teesdurham media. Out of Control: Cleveland Police Facing Public Confidence Crisis... 22nd April 2026 Cleveland Police is fast becoming the laughing stock of Teesside, as brazen thugs now openly taunt officers and expose just how out of control crime on Teesside has become. Yesterday’s incident in Hartlepool laid bare, in spectacular fashion,
Apr 222 min read


Opinion: Social Media Tactics Expose Labour’s Election Nerves in Hartlepool...
Keyboard Politics: Labour’s Election Strategy Raising Eyebrows in Hartlepool Labour 'Feeling the Pressure', as Online Attacks Replace Local Campaigning 17th April 2026 Hartlepool Labour councillors and their candidates have been found “trolling” opposition groups on social media, telling you everything you need to know about just how low the bar has now been set in Hartlepool’s local elections. It’s often said that during local election season in Hartlepool, you can expect a
Apr 173 min read


Opinion: Labour Questions Reform on Women—But What About Its Own Record?
Questions Labour Must Answer Before Criticising Others on Women such as the Mike Hill Scandal Labour Talks Tough on Women’s Rights & Womens Role in local Politics—But Its Past Tells Another Story 16th April 2026 The Hartlepool Labour Group took to social media this week to ask whether Reform “has a problem with women.” Quite a bold question: But for many in Hartlepool, it also feels like a huge case of political amnesia for the left wing political group that in just weeks cou
Apr 163 min read
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