Retiring child protection officer Cath Dixon has been nominated for a Royal Honour for her 25 years of exemplary work at Acklam Grange School.

Further green shoots are being seen at North Ormesby Market as a local plant salesman became the latest to set up stall.

Three new assistants have joined the Teesside Coroner’s Service to work alongside Senior Coroner for Teesside & Hartlepool Clare Bailey.

The whole of year 7 at a second Middlesbrough secondary school is learning a classical instrument as an Andrew Lloyd Webber-backed scheme is extended in the town.