Decision day is looming for a Teesside hub valued as a safe haven by military veterans. Julie Cooper says she must soon decide whether the Don War Memorial Museum and Last Post memorial bar stays at its current home in Cranworth Street, Thornaby, or moves elsewhere. Since 2020, the building …
Read More »More than 90,000 polling cards have to be resent following printing mistake
A printing mistake meant almost 100,000 voting cards had to be resent across Teesside. The error affected voters in three parliamentary constituencies, with a total of 96,572 polling cards for the July 4 general election sent out again. Stockton Council says it is working with the company which printed the …
Read More »Royal Mail row after cancer-battling OAP left without gifts over postage price saga
A delivery driver has slammed “uncaring” Royal Mail after his elderly mother was left without her Christmas gifts. Teessider Mark Hesse, now of Merseyside, was due to make a 300-mile round-trip to visit his Thornaby mother Pam – who is 92 and battling inoperable cancer – for the festive season …
Read More »High job vacancies in care, freight and manufacturing but rate of unemployment rises
A Jobcentre leader says care, manufacturing, and freight transport are seeing high vacancies at the moment across Teesside. National employment figures were released by the Office for National Statistics on Tuesday – showing the North East saw its employment rate stand at 70.7% between July and September. This was down …
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