Middlesbrough

'I've had a hip replacement, but it will be well worth it'

Middlesbrough will mark their 150th anniversary with a Legacy Game featuring a host of Boro favourites from down the years at the Riverside on Sunday.

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Rachel Millward is smiling against a dark backdrop. She has brown hair and has large hoop earrings and a dark jacket and blouse.

Greens call for data centres pause and no nuclear

Deputy leader Rachel Millward says two sectors planned for major North East expansion need changes.

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Kemi Badenoch smiling into the camera. She has long, black braided hair which falls below her shoulders and is wearing dark eyeshadow. She is wearing a brown suit jacket and a brown shirt underneath with the top button undone. She is sitting on a green chair. Behind her is a white wall and to the right a white door.

Tories did not cut police for fun, says leader

Labour MPs in the Cleveland Police area say the force is struggling to tackle high crime levels.

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Mugshots of Joe Murphy and Alex Wild. Murphy is smirking and has his black hood up, with a brown fringe protruding out. Wild has short ginger stubble and short thick dark hair.

Pair raided 'entirely innocent' man's house

Murphy and Wild were looking for a gold thief but had been given the wrong address, a court hears.

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A woman with short grey hair, wearing gold earrings and an orange top stands in front of a red wall.
She is smiling at the camera.

Cancer exercise group 'saved my life'

Lindsey Palmer, 55, says sessions have made her stronger as well as improving her mental health.

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Pictures of the two officers. Both are smiling. PC Blades, left, has stubble and short fair hair. He is wearing a white shirt with an open collar which can just about be seen. PC Clough also has stubble and short dark hair and is wearing a black top.

No 'deliberate' contact to stop car in A66 crash

No stinger was used by police before the fatal A66 crash, an initial investigation reveals.

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Nathan Blagg rammed the tractor and an attached baler into a house in Middlesbrough

Man rammed stolen tractor into house in grave attack feud

Nathan Blagg smashed it into a Middlesbrough house as part of a feud.

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Police vans of varying size are lined up in a row, leading up to the site of the wreckage, all with reflective liveries. To one side, two police officers rest holding paper cups, with one sitting on the central reservation metal crash barrier which separates the two sides of the road.

Who has been arrested in the wake of the A66 fatal crash?

Seven people, including two police officers, died in the wrong-way crash near Middlesbrough.

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Eight award winners. From left to right: Catherine Devereux, a woman with brown bobbed hair, wearing a blue dress with buttons; Pauline Wilson, a woman with short red hair and wearing spectacles and a purple patterned top with a lime green shawl or cardigan in the crook of her left arm; Carl Trattles, a man with a bald or shaven head wearing a grey polo shirt and jeans; Ian Milburn, a balding man with a close cropped beard, wearing a white shirt; Roman, a young teenager with slicked back brown hair, wearing a black suit, white shirt and bow tie; Stuart White, an elderly man with grey hair, wearing a brown shirt and lighter brown trousers; Elizabeth Robinson, a middle-aged woman with long dark hair, wearing a blue dress and over-dress in the same colour; Ian Lawrence, a middle-aged man with short brown hair, wearing a dark jacket over a white shirt and dark trousers. All are holding their awards, which are rectangular purple objects with white lettering.

Make a Difference awards honour local heroes

The BBC initiative celebrates everyday people who make the world a better place.

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