- MEP arrested over 'fraud' claims
- GPs 'overpaid for ghost patients'
- Net immigration steady at 250,000
- Healthcare regulator chief quits
- Toddler critically ill after crash
- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- Mild weather hits Centrica profits
- Son's tribute to funnyman Carson
- 'Sharp drop' in degree courses
- Tube staff under attack, says RMT
- Action urged on hip fracture costs
- Clegg reveals £1bn jobs fund boost
- Tributes to 'jolly jester' Carson
- Travellers 'hit by rip-off charges'
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
- Fast-track asylum delays criticised
- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
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U-turn could be a disaster
HAVING thought long and hard about my response to the council’s recent amendments to the budget proposals, I decided to object to the amendments that were put forward at the council meeting nearly two weeks ago.
No age barrier in race for fitness
ARE you on board with a Hartlepool Mail campaign to improve fitness?
Fun in the days before computers
I’m usually the kind of person who gets cheesed off by irritating noises.
MP
Exports are key to business success
There is much doom and gloom about the state of the country’s economy and the long-term prospects for economic recovery.
Bill does nothing for the jobless
AS I write this, I am in Westminster waiting to vote on the Welfare Reform Bill, which is a piece of proposed legislation put forward by the Government to change provision on benefits.
Economy is bad for your health
IT is a sad fact of life that people’s health in Hartlepool is not as good as the rest of the country.
Mayor
Sticking to my guns on budget
LAST week I explained how difficult it has been putting together the budget for next year at the council.
3 commentsBudget’s best we can do
AT regular intervals over a number of months, I have tried to explain the budget process through this column and describe the difficult situation we find ourselves in.
Good in theory
JUST over a year ago David Cameron announced that the Government was going to turn around the lives of the 120,000 most troubled families in the country by 2015.
Alan Wright
They’ve never had it so good
I happened to overhear a snatch of conversation between two youngsters walking through the shopping centre the other day.
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Weather for Hartlepool
Thursday 23 February 2012
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Temperature: 8 C to 16 C
Wind Speed: 25 mph
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Temperature: 3 C to 10 C
Wind Speed: 23 mph
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