The elected mayor of Middlesbrough backed the idea, saying: 'Chris Rea is a Middlesbrough legend whose impact on music and our local identity can’t be overstated'

Darren Hurndall's firm deals with some of the leading organisations in the North East

Concern of locals are discussed including worries about increasing housing development

Susan Baldwin gave a kidney to Will Postgate but three-and-a-half years on it is starting to fail - she shares this message

Firefighters from six stations descended on a property on Sandwood Park on Monday evening as the 'inferno' blaze took hold of the building.

Stockton Council says it is an 'exciting step' supporting a growing business destination, but Matt Vickers says it is a 'far smaller scheme' than promised

Jose Sibi will serve part of his sentence in the United Kingdom

Wintery showers, patches of ice and fresh snow accumulations are forecast across the whole of the region, including Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton, Darlington, and Hartlepool

An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of drug driving in Park Road South

Eligible households in 31 postcode districts will receive the payments - check the list

A woman was sexually assaulted in the Toytown store inside the Cleveland Centre on Grange Road, Middlesbrough

Layland Beck in Skelton is back to its usual colour after the spill of paint/ink

The property in Ingram Road, Berwick Hills, has been boarded up

Councillors heard of efforts to raise awareness of the 'rich and varied offer'

An inspector from Redcar and Cleveland Council said the same issue at Raj Stores, in Dormanstown, had been identified two years earlier

According to a social media post, the gastropub on Norton High Street will be handed over to new owners in the week commencing January 19

Jack Chapman, from Stockton, brought two officers to the floor and then stamped on one of them

Middlesbrough councillors will debate a motion at an upcoming meeting

Change of use planning permission is being sought for a property in Garsbeck Way

An inquest heard how executive Shelley Dyson decided to downgrade the investigation into Peter Coates' death, meaning his family were not informed of failings

Trevor Wynn, 17, was wrongly declared dead in a horror crash in Rotherham when it was actually another teenager who died :: The mix-up was discovered when he woke from a coma in hospital

Workers at Stockton & District Advice and Information Service say they are deeply saddened as the organisation has to review and restructure

49 UK restaurants at risk of closure as the chain's future hangs in the balance

The decision by Middlesbrough Council has been welcomed by an animal rights group in the North East

More disclaimed opinions likely to come on Tees Valley Combined Authority's accounts, with a spokesperson saying that the conclusions relate to 'past practices'