Daily Teessider

Tweet TADEA Middlesbrough Lions will be in action again this week when they host Wear Valley Warriors on Thursday in the Durham League. The game will take place at Queens Campus at 6.30pm. The junior session will be cancelled due to the game however support is encouraged to cheer on the Lions and entry is [...]

Tweet Shooting Time – Ian Macdonald Hambleton Forum Cinema Sat, 24 Sep 18:30 Ian Macdonald is an internationally acclaimed photographer who has photographed the people and places of Teeside for the past 40 years. With the film Shooting Time, Ian’s filmmaker son Jamie has made a beautifully shot testament to his father’s work, and its [...]

Tweet A drunken man wearing fishnet stockings saw in the New Year by carrying out a sex act in front of a woman. Police are appealing for information after the bizarre incident in Eston in the early hours of New Year’s Day. It happened as a lone female was returning home from a friend’s house [...]

Tweet The decision, by a Middlesbrough Council licensing panel, could be appealed. But if the decision stands it would mean the store, at 288-290 Acklam Road, would be one of only a handful run by the retail giant without an off-licence. Cleveland Police and local councillors objected to the granting of a licence. They pointed [...]

Tweet People in neighbourhoods where whole streets stand ready for demolition, have been told it will be at least four years before the work is complete. Plans to demolish 1,500 homes in central Middlesbrough were drawn up more than five years ago, and dozens of families have since been moved out. The councillor responsible for [...]

Tweet Teesside Police admit keeping records on people who report crimes or who are questioned as witnesses to crimes. They presently have the records including date of births, names, adresses etc of 172,369 people, that’s more than 1 in 3 of Teesside’s population or half of Cleveland’s adult population. It is not known over what time [...]

Tweet A soldier killed in an explosion in Afghanistan as he helped to clear an area of bombs has been named as Warrant Officer Class 2 Charlie Wood. WO Wood, 34 and from Middlesbrough, was serving with 23 Pioneer Regiment, The Royal Logistic Corps. A bomb exploded on Tuesday as he was helping co-ordinate the [...]

Tweet Cleveland Police want to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time to come forward following the fire at the The Shipmate pub, in Middlesbrough, at 3.30pm on Wednesday. Detectives would also like to speak with a male who was seen running away from the scene.It is believed that the suspect [...]

Tweet Hedgehogs are, sadly, famous for crossing roads too slowly, but one has found a new niche in highway history. To the astonishment of residents in Hartlepool, it was posthumously painted over with double yellow lines after contractors on a tight deadline failed to move its remains aside. The incident happened during a programme of [...]

Tweet The government today announced that it is considering closing 103 magistrates courts as part of a drive to cut criminal justice costs. The court service currently operates out of 530 courts and the government has highlighted 103 magistrates courts and 54 county courts that it believes are “underused and inadequate” in England and Wales. [...]