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Roker Street car park.

Free town centre parking set to return

The Borough Hall was built in 1865.

Historic venue remains part of council ambitions

Hartlepool Civic Centre.

Council leader warns of difficult decisions over 'unprecedented' £12m deficit

Changes to lane markings and signs are to be made to the improve the flow on the roundabout at the junction of Hart Road, Easington Road and West View Road.

Busy roundabout to close for lane improvements

Hartlepool councillor Graham Harrison, second left, and Councillor Rob Darby, second right, are pictured with Permission Teesside land director Martin Mowbray and Persimmon Teesside managing director Frazer Thompson.

Hartlepool council buys homes on new development

A Hartlepool Borough Council crackdown on fraudulent claims has saved more than £500,000.

Council crackdown on council tax and benefit fraud saves £500,000

More surgeries could be carried out in Hartlepool under planned changes to hospital services.

Hospital set to do more surgery under hospital shake-up

An aerial view of Hartlepool's waterfront area.

Have your say on future plans for waterfront area

The former Gretton Court Nursing Home.

Problematic piece of land transferred to charity

Discarded electronic cigarette vapes that have been collected from roads and pavements shot over a pale concrete slab background

How to handle battery waste safely: Tips from skip hire expert

Numerous repairs will be carried out to Christ Church, home to Hartlepool Art Gallery in Church Square. Picture by FRANK REID

Clock tower set to reopen as repairs win approval

Jonathan Brash MP addressing the House of Commons on Immigration

Jonathan BrashMP: Progress on Immigration: Fairness for Hartlepool

Jonathan Brash MP with Marcus Newing, Headteacher at St Helen's Primary, one of the Hartlepool schools rolling our Labour's FREE breakfast clubs that will save parents up to £450 a year per child.

Ignore What They Say; It’s What They Do That Counts

Jonathan Brash MP visiting Strabag, which has made Hartlepool a world leader in manufacturing, thanks to an incredible £50 million investment that’s transformed a disused factory at our docks into the most advanced tunnel segment factory in the world.

MP says: 'Hartlepool is on the up - Don’t let anyone talk us down'

From left: Marnie Ramsey from Hartlepool Borough Council, Councillor Brenda Harrison and Beth Major in the charity’s warehouse.

New multibank helps thousands with cost of living

Aerial shot of houses.

Find out how much your council tax will go up from April 1
Watch our videos detailing all you need to know about the areas council tax is rising from April 1 - plus who can receive discount and how to apply.
Jessica Martin

Rubbish piled up on Beach Road in Sparkhill Birmingham

Watch: Rubbish piles up in streets as bin strike enters third week

Action earlier this year on the ramp

Demanding action on the ramp

'Council spent £16m on a bridge to nowhere. It's a dangerous mess'

£16m bridge leads to 'dangerous' deep mud...it looks like a warzone

A car dealer must pay more than £9,000 in fines and costs after a visitor to his premises was seriously injured when he fell down an unprotected drop.

Man falls down 6ft drop and gets 'seriously' injured at car dealership

A road left so badly damaged by a landslip it was closed to cars can't be fixed properly - as it's still moving a YEAR later.

Britain's 'wonkiest road' destroyed by landslip finally set to reopen

Land Rover driver rams workman after ignoring road closure

Land Rover driver rams workman and sends him 'flying into a bush'

Between January 2023 and June 2024, nearly 5,000 dogs and over 20,000 cats were reported missing.

How to find a missing dog: 6 tips on what to do if your dog gets lost

Worcester City Council insists the tree in Columbia Drive poses no immediate risk and has issued a protection order for it. Inset: Chris Davis

'Menacing' 100ft tree could crush my home but council won't chop it

Hartlepool allotment holders, who are pictured here opposing a fees rise in 2023, are facing another potential rise in 2026.

Latest on talks over potential rent rise for allotment holders

Peter and Patricia Clarke outside their home in Grange Park, Swindon, which has been flooded 20 times over the past three years.

Our home has flooded 20 times...it's like Niagara Falls when it rains

Denise McGuckin, managing director of Hartlepool Borough Council, has highlighted critical social media messages while admitting "staff morale isn't great".

Council boss admits 'staff morale isn't great'
Council chiefs have admitted staff morale "isn't great" but stressed they are doing "everything we can" to improve matters while also highlighting the impact of negative social media posts.
Nic Marko

Before-and-after pictures show how a house of horrors which was turned into a makeshift dump has finally been cleared of rubbish after more than a year.

Makeshift tip FINALLY cleared as nightmare neighbour evicted

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway.

Nightmare tenant with rubbish dump in front garden gets EVICTED

More than a quarter of Hartlepool Year 6 pupils were classed as obese in 2023/24 according to latest NHS England figures. Photo: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

More than a quarter of Hartlepool 10 and 11-year-olds 'obese'

The aftermath of the blaze at the Bristol Avenue tip

Video shows devastating tip blaze caused by a single e-bike battery

Phil Austin has built a lighthouse in the middle of Salford - 30 miles away from the nearest coast.

I was refused planning permission for a home...so I built a LIGHTHOUSE

Furious resident Douglas Debnam on Whitebarns Lane in the village of Furneaux Phelham in Hertfordshire, is embroiled in Britain's longest running pothole row.

Our council want £100k to fix road with 32 potholes...we're furious!

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway.

Next door has a rubbish dump in the garden...it's making our kids sick

Betty Calloway (90) from Stirchley, who has issues with an overgrown council hedge that has turned her dream move into a nightmare.

Overgrown hedge is 'swallowing' my garden...I'm fuming

Retired bank worker, Nick Wisniewski, 66, is the last person living on 'Britain's loneliest street' which is all due to be knocked down - but he's refusing to move.

'I'm not moving!' Council move to evict man on derelict estate

Hartlepool MP Jonathan Brash insists that better diagnosis is needed to support those suffering dementia.

'Better dementia diagnosis needed' says Hartlepool MP

School classroom.

Watch: School absence fines rise details explained

Campaigner Alan Reed outside Grayfields Sports Pavilion, in Hartlepool, where double yellow lines will shortly be painted following parking complaints, inset.

Double yellow lines to be painted outside sports ground

The Cleveland Fire Brigade Stay Safe and Warm Campaign can provide free equipment such as heaters.

Fire brigade launches free winter warmth initiative

Video grab of a rat infested alleyway off Franciscan Road in Tooting, south London. October 2 2024.

I passed a swarm of rats on the school run...it was disgusting!

Armed Forces Champion Councillor Chris Wallace (left) and Veterans’ Champion Terry Phillips have been newly appointed to support service men and women across the town.

Meet Hartlepool’s new Armed Forces Champion and Veterans’ Champion

West Sussex landscaper Harry Smith-Haggett, 22, has been filling in Horsham's potholes with flowers dubbed 'pretty potholes'.

'I made my roads pretty!' Pothole flowerbed service goes viral

Marshal Craig, one of the last remaining residents on Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow which is almost deserted.

'I'm not moving!' - Man refuses to leave derelict 'Chernobyl' estate

A desperate man claims a council is doing "nothing" after his mould-ridden flat left a relative hospitalised.

Inside our mould-ridden council flat which left a relative in hospital

Muktar Singh, 55

Huge mountain of fly-tipped rubbish attracts 'rats the size of cats'

A typical street scene built by Bellway in the North East, demonstrating its Artisan Collection

Council approves plans to build 135 new homes in Easington Lane

Hartlepool Civic Centre. Picture by FRANK REID

More care compliments than complaints

(Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)

Thousands of households to receive £500 summer holidays payment

Rent increases are impacting the saving powers of four in 10 private tenants and now a third of these can't afford to put any cash aside as a result.

62% of UK renters put aside £100 or less each month

Lime trees growing either side of High Street in Henley-in-Arden, Warks., had their tops hacked off without notice leaving locals “devastated”.

Residents left furious after council "butchers" trees to save cash

Addressing child poverty is a priority for Hartlepool council.

Town's 'frightening' child poverty levels revealed

Thousands of households to receive direct payments of up to £500

Hartlepool Borough Council officers have outlined further details about the financial pressures facing the authority over the coming years.

Warning over size of council's 2025-26 budget gap

1000s of households to get direct payment worth £125 - how to apply

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