Stockton-on-Tees news

• 'Significant weakness': Watchdog concerned by council's SEND financial deficit

  05-12-2025 01:01 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Like other councils, Redcar and Cleveland is spending far in excess of its allocation for special needs school provision
  
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• Opening of Teesside's newest Wetherspoon pub The Red Anchor pushed back for second time

  08-12-2025 14:57 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  The official opening of The Red Anchor Wetherspoon pub has been delayed by two days
  
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• Community rallies for Brotton families who have 'lost everything' in terraced street fire tragedy

  08-12-2025 13:49 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Steffan Bentley has set up a GoFundMe page to help the families who have lost everything in a fire on Errington Street, Brotton
  
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• Hartlepool's Lewis Cope eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing in quarter-final

  08-12-2025 12:49 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Strictly fans have slammed the 'unfair' elimination as frontrunner Lewis Cope became the ninth celebrity to leave the competition after Musicals Week
  
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• Couple plan to transform North East watchtower into dream family home

  08-12-2025 12:32 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Roly and Jaemi Glancy have moved into the seven-storey watchtower with their three children and are planning a major renovation
  
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• A689 Hartlepool crash that closed road for over five hours leaves biker fighting for life

  08-12-2025 11:26 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Two pillion passengers were also on the back of the motorbike when the collision happened on Stockton Road, at the junction with Truro Drive
  
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• A689 crash in Hartlepool leaves two people taken to hospital and road closed for five hours

  08-12-2025 11:26 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Paramedics and police officers were called at around 8.10pm on Sunday, December 7, to a crash on the A689
  
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• I got a huge haul of free food from Tesco after spending £3.50

  08-12-2025 09:17 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Cissy got her hands on a selection of items including Lindt chocolate, Bailey’s whipped cream, toilet roll, Chocomel, cider and cat food
  
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• New chapter for Teesside Airport hotel with Ramsides Estates takeover and multi-million-pound revamp

  08-12-2025 07:09 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Ramsides Estates, which owns popular venues including Harwick Hall and Ramside Hall hotels, has stepped in and took over the former St George Hotel at Teesside International Airport
  
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• The Cheesy Pig opens at North East STACK venue with 'massive loaded fries' and pulled pork

  08-12-2025 04:29 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  The pulled pork specialists have opened their first North East location at the new food and drink venue in Pilgrim Street
  
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• 'Vicious circle' for prolific thief who filled bag for life with £1k worth of items from Sainsbury's

  08-12-2025 01:21 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Darren Goulding has been jailed again after repeatedly stealing from a Sainsbury's store in Middlesbrough
  
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• Man charged with 'causing serious injury by careless driving' after OAP suffers multiple fractures

  08-12-2025 01:21 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Richard Durkin is charged with causing serious injury by careless driving in Hartlepool
  
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• Popular Teesside pub set to roar again as couple embark on major revamp

  07-12-2025 15:59 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  The Tiger Pub in Normanby will be opening its doors again in the New Year
  
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• Average of 174 adult safeguarding concerns a week logged with Teesside councils, report reveals

  07-12-2025 15:40 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Middlesbrough had the highest number over the course of 2024/25
  
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• 'Fax machine' noise and 'swamp' complaints at new Teesside housing development site

  07-12-2025 15:08 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Construction is continuing on approximately 810 new homes to the south of Marske
  
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• Alleged danger driver arrested after police chase in 'stolen Kia' results in car flip near Morrisons

  07-12-2025 14:54 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Officers are appealing for information after the car collided with railings and flipped onto its side
  
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• Everything we know so far on Netherfields blaze that created huge fireball as cordon erected at home

  07-12-2025 13:55 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  A home in Netherfields has been cordoned off after 999 crews were called to a blaze
  
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• Acting graduate's tongue reconstructed using skin from arm including tattoo after cancer diagnosis

  07-12-2025 13:28 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Harriet Trewhitt, 21, was just days from finishing her degree when she got devastating diagnosis
  
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• Yellow weather warning issued as heavy rain set to hit Teesside

  07-12-2025 12:47 via gazettelive.co.uk
  The Met Office has warned the weather could cause disruptions, with some areas experiencing flooding.
  
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• Families and disabled man evacuated as fire rips through four Teesside terraced homes

  07-12-2025 12:45 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  All residents on Brotton's Errington Street thankfully managed to escape the blazing properties, but some have lost everything including Christmas presents
  
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• Middlesbrough fire LIVE: Police cordon erected after orange fireball bursts through property window

  07-12-2025 11:37 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Cleveland Fire Brigade are at the scene on Netherfields Crescent
  
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• Middlesbrough fire LIVE: Orange fireball bursts through property window

  07-12-2025 11:37 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Cleveland Fire Brigade are at the scene on Netherfields Crescent
  
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• Step into a dream world at Wynyard Hall's festive maze attraction

  07-12-2025 11:34 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  The DreamMaze in the walled gardens of Wynhard Hall is back for 2025 after last year's sell out season
  
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• 'Unreal' piping hot, plump parmos at bustling Teesside pub to kick off festive season

  07-12-2025 11:07 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  The Merlin, in Marsh House Avenue, Billingham, was fully booked on a Tuesday night - and it's no wonder as the food was 'incredible'
  
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• Person taken to hospital after car 'flips onto side' near Middlesbrough Morrisons supermarket

  07-12-2025 11:03 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Police have closed Ormesby Road roundabout in all directions following the one vehicle crash
  
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• 24 festive images show families enjoying Stockton Christmas Market and Victorian Fair

  07-12-2025 10:42 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Wet weather didn't put revellers off as they took part in the annual Stockton Christmas Market and Victorian Fair
  
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• Holly Hagan says sister 'was a 19-year-old girl who made a mistake' revealing tragic death details

  07-12-2025 09:41 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Former Geordie Shore star Holly Hagan has spoken out about her 19-year-old sister Darci Rose Gibson's death, warning others about the dangers of drug use
  
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• The danger dog owners hauled before the courts for horrific attacks in Teesside

  07-12-2025 05:26 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  In one shocking attack, a four-year-old boy was bitten on the cheek and needed hospital treatment
  
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• £3k kitchen roll cocaine stash uncovered in IT worker's home after he 'become involved in drugs op'

  07-12-2025 04:46 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Abdul-Qader Hamadamen stashed cocaine in a kitchen roll at his Hartlepool home
  
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• E-scooter riding drug dealer jailed after being caught with wraps of heroin in Hartlepool streets

  07-12-2025 04:32 via gazettelive.co.uk
  
  Heroin dealer Andrew Brewer, 53, has been jailed for over five years
  
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