SCHOOL children in Middlesbrough are being helped across the road by two newly appointed ‘lollipop’ patrollers – who are perhaps unusually not long out of school themselves.

WHEN a Middlesbrough headteacher was asked how many devices were needed to ensure all pupils could continue learning during the lockdown, she hardly dared admit the answer.

Cancer survivors are uniting to share their stories of being diagnosed in a bid to raise awareness of a condition that affects more than 33,000 individuals in the UK. 

A TEESSIDE man is recounting a harrowing experience of how he was on the verge of losing his eyesight forever if not for the NHS and thanking them for their outstanding care.