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A landscape gardener has received a suspended prison sentence and has been ordered to pay compensation after he took deposits from two pensioners for work he then failed to complete.
Labour says it has won back control in Hartlepool at the 2024 local elections.
Councillors will write to schools to urge them to make uniforms more affordable.
Hartlepool is an odd place.Originally an Anglo-Saxon monastic settlement, later a coal port, and more recently a fishing town struggling to survive. It’s a geographical appendix to the historical County Durham body; a peninsula jutting out in the county’s lower regions that is now, apparently, surplus to requirements.
Labour celebrated becoming the biggest party on the council in Hartlepool’s local elections, but remain one seat short of an overall majority.