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Newsnight� s Nicholas Watt reports from tees valley. An icon of a vibrant industrial past, now out of action, symbolising an area struggling to find its feet. Tees valley, an infant hercules in its days as a World Capital of iron and steel making, is now clearing sites of past glories and looking for new ventures. A painful process with economic decline, alongside pockets of affluence. That has placed this area on the National Political map, and now a mayoral contest with high stakes for the two main parties. A Rumbustious Conservative mayor became the first poster boy of the redwall, after ...

And works agency, is warning that the risk of disease is increasing across gaza because of the lack of sanitation and aid. Lets hear from our correspondent injerusalem, wyre davies. Over the last few days, the world and the worlds Media Attention has been focused on those exchanges of fire between israel and iran, and the potential, a week ago, for what looked like a possible regional war. Those fears have been somewhat dissipated after minimal israeli response in the last couple of days. And that side of things appears to have gone away a little bit, with both israeli and iranian governments ...

Of more than 70 years. andy edwards from stoke is beginning to fashion a historic piece of public art. and this is how his finished statue of queen elizabeth ii will look. i do feel that pressure but i do relish it because it is what you aspire to, it's the highest honour, to sculpt the queen. and for that to be commissioned by your hometown is even more so. it's a visit in 1973 which has inspired the sculpture. queen elizabeth and prince philip were here to mark the 800th anniversary of newcastle borough's royal charter. the details from that visit are being carefully observed and cast in bro...

Of more than 70 years. andy edwards from stoke is beginning to fashion a historic piece of public art. and this is how his finished statue of queen elizabeth ii will look. i do feel that pressure, but i do relish it because it is what you aspire to, it's the highest honour, to sculpt the queen. and for that to be commissioned by your hometown is even more so. it's a visit in 1973 which has inspired the sculpture. queen elizabeth and prince philip were here to mark the 800th anniversary of newcastle borough's royal charter. the details from that visit are being carefully observed and cast in br...

Further in my background and circumstance than the queen, i come from a council estate, not a royal estate, but it's the difference between people that brings us closer together and i think it's important that we feel that we can celebrate things like the queen returning to newcastle. this will be the statue's eventual home. here in queens gardens, there is a statue of victoria, and queen elizabeth's sculpture will be placed so she looks towards her great—great—grandmother. i think it will be a really fitting tribute to be in such a beautiful place where so many people from good old stoke ...