Hartlepool Council bosses want to ban daytime drinking on beaches this summer to stop anti-social behaviour with fines of up to £1,000 for rule-breakers. The new rules, which were agreed last week, will stop people from drinking booze by the seafront in Seaton Carew, County Durham. Under the Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO), the regulations will … Read more
Keir Starmer faces call to axe Labour candidate for Hartlepool by-election who was forced to apologise for ‘inappropriate’ tweet made in 2011 about ‘a favourite Tory MILF’ Paul Williams, 48, was selected as party’s candidate for Hartlepool by-election But his recently resurfaced social media posts were met with fierce disapproval Labour peer Baroness Shami Chakrabarti … Read more
Labour’s Mike Hill quit as an MP today to set up a ‘Red Wall’ by-election that will be a bellweather for Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer’s leaderships. The Hartlepool MP, 57, resigned his Hartlepool seat after four years following reports that he used taxpayers’ money to fight a staff member’s claim of unfair dismissal, sexual assault … Read more
A whistle-blowing surgeon from Iraq suffered racial discrimination and harassment after raising the alarm about patient safety at a trust where he claimed ‘white and Indian doctors were untouchable’, a tribunal has found. Associate specialist surgeon Dr Manuf Kassem raised concerns about the care of 25 patients at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust … Read more