Things To Do

The Headland has installed a host of illuminations for Wintertide Festival.

21 photos of WIntertide's opening night

Will you be visiting any Christmas markets this year?

17 Christmas markets happening in Hartlepool

The angels are set to return to Hartlepool for the 2023 Christmas lights switch on.

All you need to know about Hartlepool’s Christmas lights switch on

Kelly Barnecutt holds a Santa Clause statue as she sets up the club shop at High Throston Golf Club for their Christmas market in 2021.

Golf club holds family-friendly Christmas market

Festival goers enjoy the Open Jar Tribute Festival at Seaton Carew earlier this year.

2024 Open Jar Tribute Festival set to be ‘bigger and better’

Heugh Battery Museum staff and volunteers wearing their exclusive War To End All Wars t-shirts. Left to right: Carole Baldwin, Andy Stephens, Tony Armstrong and Diane Stephens. Picture by FRANK REID

Town museums team up with Swedish rockers in film project

Tom Meighan is due to appear in Hartlepool. Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images

Kasabian frontman tour coming to Hartlepool

St Hilda's Church will be lit up throughout the festival.

Wintertide to light up Headland again

Last year's fireworks display at Seaton Carew.

Seaton Carew fireworks display this weekend

Hartlepool Round Table Beer Festival in full swing inside the Borough Hall.

Cheers! Beer festival organisers toast successful year

The former Hartlepool Reproduction Centre. (Photo: Google).

Chance to join paranormal investigation

From left, the chairman of the Hartlepool Round Table, Peter Davies, and Kit Dodd from, the Three Brothers Brewing Company, set up one of the kegs in the Borough Hall ahead of the Hartlepool Round Table Beer Festival. Picture by FRANK REID.

What to expect at Round Table beer festival

Shed Seven to celebrate 30th anniversary with shows and new album

Ad Feature Rick Witter tells Shed Seven fans to "buckle up" for special gigs and album

Top 10 tips for online bingo in Daventry: How to choose the best sites. Picture – supplied.

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Skinner Brothers.

The Gathering Sounds: All you need to know for one day Teesside festival

Taylor Swift's worldwide tour is being screened in cinemas.

Cinema chain to screen Taylor Swift concert
Taylor Swift fans can experience the superstar singer’s new worldwide tour on the big screen in Hartlepool.

An example of the living history appearing at the National Museum of the Royal Navy Hartlepool./Photo: Whizz Bangs

National Museum of the Royal Navy to host 1940s weekend

The Festival of Thrift takes place in Billingham this year. Photo: James Mulkeen

Thousands expected at Festival of Thrift

Take That's concert at the Riverside Stadium in 2019. (Photo: Tom Banks)

Take That returning to region for stadium concert

Take That are back with The Life album and 2024 tour

Ad Feature Take That: This Life album and 2024 tour is heading this way!

Superhero Batman is heading to Hartlepool store The Entertainer soon.

Superhero set to visit Hartlepool store

The former Sunderland AFC chairman will appear at a talk-in to promote his autobiography at the stadium on October 11.

Sir Bob Murray to give talk at Stadium of Light ahead of new book launch

Men, women and children turned out for this year's Miles For Men fun run. (Photos courtesy of Miles For Men)

Over 400 supporters turn out for Miles For Men

Last year's Miles For Men and Walk For Women.

Line up for Miles For Men 5k fun run

Last year's Hartlepool Carnival Raft Race.

Splashing fun in store at carnival raft race

This year's Moonlight Walk will take place at Seaton Carew.

Moonlight walk for hospice

Gatecrasher 30th Anniversary Show at Don Valley Bowl adds yet more DJs and a second stage

Epic Gatecrasher 30th Anniversary Show adds yet more DJs and a second stage
With just three weeks to go before Gatecrasher’s 30th anniversary celebration rolls back into its spiritual home of Sheffield, organisers have today announced a second stage and more DJs alongside massive plans for the much-awaited return of the celebrated Gatecrasher Classical show.

The cast of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys.

Hartlepool Christmas panto cast revealed

Carnival goers enjoying the 98th Headland Carnival in 2021.

Highlights of the Hartlepool Carnival's 100th year

Passion killers singer Phil Dunn.

Line up announced for tenth annual music fundraiser

Shelby Foreman, Marketing Executive at TBI with Hospice In Memory Fundraiser, Nicola Winwood.

Afternoon tea and fashion show set to take place in aid of hospice

Hartlepool Carnival parade.

Chance to be Miss Carnival for centenary year

Noel Gallagher. Portrait by Matt Crockett

The UK’s best kept live secret unveils final plans for 2023 event

Headliners the Happy Mondays

Final line-up confirmed for Bingley Festival

Over 3,000 tickets have already been sold for the tribute festival which will take place in Seaton Carew in September./Photo: Frank Reid

Organisers ‘mind-blown’ as more than 3,000 tickets sold for tribute festival

A selection of the sea-themed artwork on display at the Artrium Gallery in Middleton Grange Shopping Centre.

Tall Ships inspired art exhibition on now in town

Learning how to use a throw bag at last years event. (Photo: RNLI/Tom Collins).

Water safety day this weekend

Catcote Academy is holding a summer fair to raise funds for students' activities./Photo: Stu Norton

Hartlepool school’s popular summer fair returns this weekend

The Bima Suci from Indonesia leaves the Victoria Dock on the last day of the Tall Ships. Picture by BERNADETTE MALCOLMSON

Bon voyage! Tall Ships organisers hail success of event

Vessels standing of Hartlepool as they prepare for the 2nd leg of the 2023 Tall Ships Race. Picture by FRANK REID

Tall ships leaving Hartlepool

Tall Ships crews paraded on the Headland on Friday afternoon.

Tall ships dazzling crew parade

Jurassic Earth features a park full of life-sized roaming, state-of-the-art animatronic beasts, including Zeus - the world's largest walking T-Rex!

Ad Feature PREVIEW: Jurassic Earth dinosaur show is roaring this way!

A tall ship arrives in Hartlepool on Wednesday afternoon.

Tall Ships come sailing in

A tall ship arrives in Hartlepool ahead of the Tall Ships Races in 2010. Photo: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

Highlights of Tall Ships Races programme

Hartlepool Tall Ships 2023 Race Director Magda Makowska.

Tall Ships Race Director looking forward to Hartlepool spectacle

Natalie Imbruglia

Australian Popstar Natalie Imbruglia confirmed for Rock N Roll Circus Sheffield

Tall Ships car parking arrangements unveiled

Clockwise from top left, Hartlepool Art Gallery, Heugh Battery Museum, Tweddle Farm and Saltholme.

10 other things to do in Hartlepool while the Tall Ships are here

Find out about new Army reserve units at the Tall Ships

Elwick Grange is hosting a summer festival on June 29.

Hartlepool care home invites local community to a festival to remember

Start of 5k race at the Hartlepool Race for Life in July 2022./Photo: Kevin Brady

Hartlepool Race for Life is back with hundreds set to take part

Crime fiction writer Luca Veste. Photo: Ean_Flanders.

Chance to meet crime author as book club visits town

A huge tribute festival will take place in Seaton Carew in September./Photo: Frank Reid

Huge tribute festival to take place in Hartlepool in September

Illustrator Jonny Hannah working on his Shipbuilders & Fisherfolk exhibition in his Hartlepool studio. Photo: Chris Booth.

New exhibition explores town's folklore

Aardman pirate puppet character from ‘The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!’ © 2012 Sony Pictures Animation Inc.

Festival of Illustration returns to town