From healthcare workers and delivery drivers, to supermarket staff and teachers; Hartlepool has so many incredible people to be proud of. You have been sharing your stories about the people who mean the most to you. Here, we meet 20 of the town’s key worker heroes.
1. Louise Watts and Katie Dunn
Sam Dunn: My beautiful cousins. Louise working in care, a wife and a mother to three kids and still going to work superwoman! Katie does lunching clubs with the elderly, she is out of work because of this, but still doing her care calls going to get people's shopping. Photo: UGC
2. Kelly and Kevin Nixon
Chloe Nixon: My wonderful mam and dad, mother being a midwife and my dad working for a packaging place making boxes for food to be delivered! Photo: UGC
3. Andrew Stubbs
Andrea Frost: My wonderful hubby-to-be Andrew Stubbs. He's a lorry driver and works nights, so proud of him. Photo: UGC
4. Catherine Bage
Chantele Dawes: My mam still going to work at Farmfoods, single parent so have my sister living with me, she hasn't got the privilege to drive so still has to use public transport which is also a pain because now they've taken buses off and reduced services she has to get two buses home and it's a huge danger zone she's a star. Photo: UGC