Politics

A recycling centre could create more than 30 new jobs if plans to expand into Hartlepool get the go-ahead.

Councillors from a political party in Hartlepool say they will not be taking a controversial allowance increase.

A row has broken out between Hartlepool’s Labour Party and the town’s hospice leaders over a proposed health village on hospital land.

Residents fear plans to build affordable homes on land where troubled properties were demolished will see a return of crime and antisocial behaviour.

Councillors in Hartlepool have received a 2% rise in their basic allowance a year on from a controversial increase of almost 31%.

Town politicials say ‘chronic underfunding’ has led to secondary school pupils who come from poorer households in Hartlepool lagging more than two years behind their peers nationwide.

This week it was revealed that almost one in 12 police officers have taken a second job to make ends meet.

A consultation for the public to give their views on what Hartlepool’s council ward map should look like has been extended.

Hartlepool’s Independent Group of councillors has made its own submission to electoral boundary chiefs for how the town’s ward map should be drawn.

A residents association has hit out at suggestions to split a Hartlepool housing estate into three different electoral wards.

Parliament is in recess until September 2. For many the perception is that MPs are on holiday, but obviously that isn’t the case. It simply means we don’t sit in Parliament throughout August and instead concentrate on work in our constituencies.

Managers of a Durham County Council department have been blasted for running it ‘like a fish and chip shop’.

A political row has broken out after the Ceremonial Mayor of Hartlepool was deselected by his party from standing in his ward in next year’s council elections.

A social club could be shut down this week following allegations of ‘criminal conduct’ on its premises.

Council bosses reflected on a ‘good performance’ financially last year despite recording an overspend of more than £100,000.

Steps have been taken by council bosses to launch an investigation in to the provision of mental health services in Hartlepool.

Hartlepool MP Mike Hill pressed the policing needs of the town when he met with Cleveland Police’s Chief Constable.

THIS weekend marks the 50th anniversary of “proper” TV in Yorkshire, by which I mean its birth as a self-contained region.