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  1. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Jason Arunn Murugesu

    Heighington railway dig fails to back ‘oldest platform’ claim (opens the original)

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    Volunteers excavating what is claimed to be the world's oldest railway station platform have admitted they have found "no silver bullet" to prove the boast. Heighington Station, which dates to back to 1827 and was part of the first passenger railway to use steam trains in the world, was bought by the charity Friends of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (FOSD) last year. Archaeologists and volunteers have been digging around the station for the past two weeks and volunteer Bethany Cochrane said

  2. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Jason Arunn Murugesu

    Extra 200 police to aid Teesside crash and fire investigation (opens the original)

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    An extra 200 police officers are being sent to support an investigation into a car crash and a house fire which left nine people dead, a council leader has said. Seven people, including two police officers, died in the crash at South Bank near Middlesbrough on Saturday, followed by a house fire in Grangetown on Wednesday that claimed the lives of a woman aged 34 and a seven-year-old girl. Alec Brown, leader of Redcar and Cleveland Council, said armed officers, dog units and "community bobbies" w

  3. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Jason Arunn Murugesu

    Fundraiser for police officers killed in A66 crash in Middlesbrough tops £1m (opens the original)

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    A fundraiser for two police officers who were killed in a wrong-way crash has reached more than £1m. PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough died during the early hours of Saturday when a Volkswagen Passat, going the wrong way on the A66 at South Bank, near Middlesbrough, hit their vehicle. The five young men in the Volkswagen also died. Among the donations to the police officers' fundraiser, which was launched by the Cleveland Police Federation, was £4,000 from the Cleveland branch of the National

  4. Article · Aug 6, 2026 · Jason Arunn Murugesu

    North East Museums buys rare Battle of Trafalgar flag (opens the original)

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    A flag flown at the Battle of Trafalgar has been bought by a museum group. North East Museums wants to put the union flag - commonly known as the union jack - on show at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle. It was flown from HMS Royal Sovereign, the flagship of Nelson's second-in-command Newcastle-born Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, at Trafalgar in 1805. It is just one of three from the battle known to exist. Collingwood's great-great-great niece Susan Collingwood-Cameron said the flag represe

  5. Article · Jul 16, 2026 · Jason Arunn Murugesu

    Pipe sewage leaks may explain poor Cullercoats water quality, firm says (opens the original)

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    Water chiefs say sewage leaking from damaged pipes could be a source of pollution which has plagued a seafront for years. Since 2018 water quality at Cullercoats Bay in North Tyneside has been given the lowest possible rating by the Environment Agency (EA), which tests for contamination from bacteria linked to human and animal faeces. Northumbrian Water has long blamed polluted groundwater for the beach's low score but for years, alongside others including the EA and North Tyneside Council, has

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