Hartlepool, England News

They were inspired by a visit from people behind Hartlepool's Miles For Men which will once again raise thousands for cancer research when it is held for a second time this summer.

A boy aged just nine has admitted burgling a house and stealing the keys of a car that crashed moments later, police said.

A SKIP hire boss has been landed with hefty court bill after refusing to let Environment Agency officers inspect the source of burning coming from his site.

HEALTH chiefs say they are working hard to reassure central government and their own regulators that a scheme for a new 300m hospital is affordable.

Owton Manor Lane, in Hartlepool, was closed to traffic as firefighters fought flames at the old manor house, near Manor College of Technology.

Hartlepool's Throston, Ward Jackson and St Aidan's primary schools have all smashed through the 10,000-point barrier as part of our 2013 competition to reward your favourite schools and nurseries.

Hartlepool Police launched a probe after a man's body was discovered in a terraced house in Keswick Street, off the town's Elwick Road.

The results for the fourth quarter of 2012 show the firm plunged into the red with losses of A 840m after wiping A 1 billion off the value of its European arm.

Two Shetland ponies were taken from the rear of Bruntoft Avenue on land owned by Hartlepool Borough Council and three were removed from grassland on Old Cemetery Road.

Police have been dealing with an incident of suspected arson at a first floor flat in Fulthorpe Avenue in King Oswy.

HARTLEPOOL MP Iain Wright is calling on council bosses to investigate a decision by health chiefs to transfer intensive care services from the town.

A HISTORIC Hartlepool landmark has been put up for sale with the aim of it being restored and brought back into use.

Renowned sportsman Graeme Scarratt hopes he has spotted a gap in the market by publishing the first in a possible series of beginners' guides to different sports.

Work on the heating system of St Hilda's Church, on Hartlepool's Headland in England, has unearthed an Anglo Saxon grave, leading experts to believe that the church was constructed over site of St Hilda's Anglo-Saxon monastery.

Jordan Lee Hunt, 14, had been missing from the Grangetown area of Middlesbrough since Friday, May 10 but was found on Monday, May 13.

WOMAN FOUND: Police have traced a woman who was reported as missing last week. Lisa Hernandez had gone missing from her Skelton , East Cleveland home on May 2. Police said she was found safe and well and thanked the public for their assistance in tracing her.

A COUNCIL has apologised to a homeowner and five of his neighbours whose bins have not been emptied correctly for three weeks due to "confusion" over refuse changes.

Jake Fielding Smith was slapped with a 12-month exclusion from Middleton Grange Shopping Centre, in Hartlepool, after bosses accused him of "acting suspiciously". But after scores of people commented on the Mail's website about the story, centre manager Mark Rycraft arranged a meeting with Jake - who is due to join the Royal Navy next month as a ... (more)

COUNCILLORS have welcomed a series of measures as a way of an apology by a building firm that demolished a pillbox dating back to the Second World War.

Seaton Carew beach in Hartlepool was closed by police after the discovery of the hand grenade by a council worker at around 9.50am. Police taped off the beach and the area near to the Rocket House car park, while specialists detonated the grenade near to the water's edge after partially burying it beneath the sand.