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abour leader and incoming Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and wife Victoria enter 10 Downing Street

Watch: Keir Starmer makes first speech as Prime Minister outside No 10

Neil Kinnock falls over on Brighton seafront in 1983.

Funny political stunts gone wrong from elections past

General Election 2024’s 7 best campaign moments and gaffes.

General Election 2024 7 best campaign moments and gaffes

Rishi Sunak: Four men arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass

On reflection, Monkey Tennis could be a vote winner.

Monkey Tennis just might sway undecided voters

Just Stop Oil protesters have targeted multiple private jets at an airfield in Stansted after Taylor Swift landed her own private plane just hours before. (Credit: Just Stop Oil)

Watch: Just Stop Oil target Taylor Swift

Activists sitting by Stonehenge after it was sprayed orange (Photo: Just Stop Oil / Supplied)

Watch: Just Stop Oil 'paint' world-famous UK monument

(Photo: BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)

How UK parties are approaching National Insurance ahead of election

Warm your hands and you've got my vote...

RICHARD ORD: It's time politicians rubbed us up the right way!

A previous election count at Hartlepool's Mill House leisure centre.

The eight candidates fighting to become Hartlepool MP

Rishi Sunak scores election own goal with football gaffe.

Watch: Rishi Sunak scores election own goal with football gaffe

Jill Mortimer and Jonathan Brash have been speaking after the general election was called.

Candidates kick off general election campaigns

Rishi Sunak has called a general election for July 4.

Watch: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces July 4 General Election

What you need to know about the new Universal Credit rules

You drive me vape. Picture: Adobe Stock

RICHARD ORD: Rishi Sunak wages war on the fog-gobblers

Antony Sweeney (second from left) has criticised the controversial decision to scrap FA Cup replays.

"To take that opportunity away from lower league clubs is wrong"

Hartlepool United assistant head coach Antony Sweeney said the decision to scrap FA Cup replays was "totally negative".

Robbie Stelling

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a visit to Aldersyde Day Nursery in Hartlepool as the first parents in England start to benefit from 15 hours of taxpayer-funded care for two-year-olds. Photo: Paul Ellis/PA Wire

Prime Minister hails ‘positive’ childcare move in town visit

Director Grant Walters at The Sports Shop in Kingswinford show off their St George's Cross transfer to apply to new England kit. A sports shop is selling St George’s Cross iron-on transfers for £4.95 - so fans can cover the controversial design on the new England football shirt.

Shop sells St George patch to cover rainbow flag on Nike's England kit

Jeremy Hunt will announce the 2024 Budget. Credit: Kim Mogg/Getty/Adobe

Budget 2024: Hunt cuts NI again and reforms child benefit

The UK has entered a recession

UK enters recession as economy shrinks

XL Bullies will be banned from Februrary 2024.

XL Bully Ban: Everything you need to know as ban comes into place

Children aged two will recieve 15 hours of free childcare.

Free childcare scheme April roll out

The first loaded train setting off from STRABAG in Hartlepool.

First Hartlepool-made HS2 tunnel parts roll out of town

Jeremy Hunt will announce the Autumn Statement today. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Mark Hall

Watch the Chancellor's autumn statement speech here

Rishi Sunak said allegations of a Tory MP committing multiple rapes are “very serious” and anyone with evidence should “talk to police”. (Photo: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Sunak urges victims of alleged rapist Tory MP to ‘go to police’

There are currently 7.75m people on NHS waiting lists across the country.

NHS waiting lists could reach 8m by next summer

The UK has called for a temporary "pause" in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, to allow humanitarian aid to reach those in Gaza and to allow the release of hostages. (Credit: Getty Images)

UK calls for 'pause' in Israel-Hamas conflict but rejects ceasefire

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that a temporary "pause" in the violence between Israel and Hamas would be beneficial but rejected calls for a complete ceasefire

Heather Carrick

Heat pumps grant rises to £7.5k as UK Government warned it won’t meet 2050 net zero target

UK government increases heat pumps grant in effort to achieve net zero

Hartlepool MP Jill Mortimer in her constituency office.

MP pleads for 'illegal migrants' to be expelled

Former SNP MP Dr Lisa Cameron, left, who has defected to the Tories, and SNP leader Humza Yousaf. Credit: PA/Getty

SNP MP defects to Tories after claiming 'toxic and bully treatment'

'Sorry miss, but are you old enough to be smoking that cigarette?'

RICHARD ORD: I've seen the future... it's hover boots and fag ratting!

Peter Dixon of GE Vernova (left) and Dogger Bank project director Olly Cass in front of wind turbine blades at Able Seaton Port, Hartlepool. Picture by FRANK REID

Town’s key role in world’s largest offshore wind farm

Dale Vince joins Just Stop Oil activists during a protest by the environmental campaigners in central London. Picture Date: Thursday June 8, 2023. Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Just Stop Oil donor pulls funding over ‘pointless’ further protests

The Prime Minister has unveiled plans to scrap A-levels in a huge shake-up to the UK’s education system. Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images

A-levels and T Levels to be scrapped, Rishi Sunak announces

Hartlepool MP Jill Mortimer.

£20m boost 'levelling up in action' says MP

American XL bully dog

Xl Bully destroyed after child rushed to hospital following attack

Rishi Sunak has refused to say whether he's axing the HS2 route from Birmingham to Manchester. Credit: Mark Hall/Getty

Northern leader hits out at PM’s ‘lies’ over rail projects and HS2

Rishi Sunak's government will preside over the highest tax rises on record, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. (Credit: Getty Images)

Sunak's government will oversee highest tax rises on record

RICHARD ORD: Braverman on the warpath... is there an election looming by any cha...

The Prime Minister is reportedly "alarmed" by the ballooning costs of the HS2 [project amid rumours that his government may be about to announce that the Northern leg of the line will be scrapped. (Credit: Hollie Adams/PA Wire)

Rishi Sunak 'alarmed' by costs of HS2 project amid Cabinet split

Rishi Sunak is reportedly drawing up plans to slash inheritance tax as he looks to attract voters ahead of the next general election. Credit: Getty Images

Rishi Sunak considering inheritance tax cut

Liz Truss has been claiming from fund for ex-prime ministers despite only 49 days in office (Getty Images)

Liz Truss claims from fund for ex-PMs despite only 49 days in office

Liz Truss

Liz Truss defends her record as prime minister in think tank speech

An XL Bully was involved in one of the attacks, injuring a 15-year-old girl

American XL bullies 'to be banned by end of the year'

Wegovy is now available on the NHS

Weight-loss injection Wegovy now available on the NHS

Lucy Letby received a rare whole life order after being convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit between 2015 and 2016.

Criminals must face victims for sentencing after Lucy Letby’s no-show

Restyle app to make you look like doll ‘whitewashing’ people of colour

'Hey kids, dinner's ready. Potatoes again...'

Rishi Sunak's fossil fuel policy revealed: Burn first, ask questions later...

Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt are considering awarding pay rises to certain groups of striking workers. (Photo by STEFAN ROUSSEAU/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Cabinet split over awarding striking workers 6% pay rise

Boris Johnson visits Hartlepool to congratulate Jill Mortimer following her 2021 by-election victory .

MP reveals why she abstained from vote on Boris Johnson 'Partygate' report

A three year old British girl is thought to be among those stabbed in the knife attack

British girl, 3 among those stabbed in knife attack in Annecy, France

Wegovy: What is the weight loss jab which GPs will offer on NHS

Hartlepool has been named as a potential location for a possible geothermal plant to help the UK's energy production.

Hartlepool among top locations for deep geothermal plant

Lab tests have shown vapes confiscated from school students were mostly illegal, and had high levels of lead, nickel and chromium (Photo: NationalWorld/Adobe Stock)

Government announces crackdown on vape adverts targeting children

International students who come to the UK will no longer be able to bring family with them except under specific circumstances in a government bid to bring migration down.

Many international students to lose right to bring family to UK