Tyne Tees Hartlepool

Rice, who won the singing show All Together Now last year, said previously that he hoped to improve the UK's reputation at the contest.

A group of cabin owners in Middleton, Hartlepool are at risk of losing their community after 70 years, as council pulls lease subsidy.

The 21-year-old will sing the track Bigger Than Us at the continent-wide competition in Tel Aviv in May.

Torbjorn Kettlewell will serve a minimum term of 29 years in prison for murdering the mum of three Kelly Franklin in Hartlepool.

Kelly Franklin was stabbed more than 30 times by Torbjorn Kettlewell in Hartlepool last year.

Frances and Patrick Connolly, from Northern Ireland, lived in Hartlepool for 25 years and plan to give money to St Francis football club

Police are appealing for witnesses after a 37-year-old pedestrian was hit by a van in Hartlepool.

Project Bloodhound, which aimed to break the land speed world record, has been scrapped after efforts to secure investors failed.

A man has been charged with murder after the death of Kelly Franklin in Hartlepool.

A nine-year-old from Newcastle has been spending her summer holidays leading a foodbank collection for youngsters in Hartlepool.