Recently added articles from Hartlepool Mail (Hartlepool, England):
A weekly windfall's grand for Rebecca.
Aug 04, 2008 ... A MUM will be feeling grand every week for the next year after landing a lotto cash windfall. Rebecca Randall, 19, from Billingham, scooped [pounds sterling]1,000 a week for the next year on the National Lottery's Weekly Grand scratchcard. Rebecca, mum to ...
Dry dock for ghost ships.
Aug 04, 2008 ... PREPARATION work to scrap four so-called ghost ships on the outskirts of Hartlepool has started after a recycling firm won permission to dismantle the rotting vessels. Able UK has been busy getting ready to break up the controversial ghost ships berthed at its Graythorp site, ...
Gaymes are back in the running.
Aug 04, 2008 ... A GAY Games-style event held for the first time in Hartlepool last summer will return for a second year. The town will host The Gaymes 2008 after last year's event proved popular, with more than 100 people taking part. Hart Gables, a support group for lesbian, gay, ...
Festival still on ... but more cash is needed.
Aug 04, 2008 ... A GLASTONBURY-STYLE festival will go ahead despite funding fears. The Pig Pen festival, which has been held at High Farm at Elwick, on the outskirts of Hartlepool, since 2005, is taking place next month. But festival bosses, who have been saved from cancelling the ...
Police turn screw on metal thieves.
Aug 04, 2008 ... DETECTIVES are stepping up their efforts in the battle with metal thieves across town. Hartlepool CID have launched an operation in a bid to identify offenders who are stealing valuable metals, like lead and copper. The problem is causing headaches for police in the ...
Birthday joy for boy given just 72 hours to live.
Aug 04, 2008 ... THE family of a "miracle" tot given just 72 hours to live are today celebrating a milestone birthday. A year ago today, little Jake Bettinson made his entrance to the world by Caesarean section 11 weeks prematurely, weighing just 1lb 13oz. Doctors gave his mum Lauren ...
Babysitter locked out - with tot inside.
Aug 04, 2008 ... A TEENAGE babysitter was forced to call the fire brigade for help after getting locked out of a house with an 18-month-old tot trapped inside. The babysitter was left shocked when the front door of the house clicked shut behind her after she had gone to answer a knock at the ...
Lorry driver faces crash charge.
Aug 04, 2008 ... A LORRY driver will appear in court in connection with a crash involving a bus carrying more than a dozen passengers. Two people were taken to hospital following a crash between a HGV wagon and the 230 Hartlepool to Sunderland bus service. The bus stop was demolished ...
Residents split on new supermarket.
Aug 02, 2008 ... PLANNING bosses will meet next week to discuss plans by a supermarket chain to build a new discount food store. Lidl UK have submitted plans to build a 3,090sq ft store with 59 car parking spaces in Jesmond Gardens, Hartlepool. The development, which could create up ...
It's a girl for Mayor and his family.
Aug 02, 2008 ... A TOWN mayor and his wife are celebrating the arrival of their third child. Rosemary Kate Drummond weighed in at a whopping 10lbs 12oz at 10.45pm on Thursday, much to the delight of Hartlepool mayor Stuart Drummond and his wife Rebecca. Rosemary Kate joins brother ...
Why we live in a shed.
Aug 02, 2008 ... A HOMELESS couple are set to go back to sleeping in an allotment after turning down a host of "run-down" houses offered to them. Debbie Galloway, 31, and husband Philip, 42, lost their home after they failed to keep up payments on their three-bedroomed semi-detached home. ...
Bread roles for soldiers.
Aug 02, 2008 ... MEMBERS of a popular re-enactment group are using their loaves to star in the new Hovis TV advert. The seven-strong group from the Hartlepool Military Heritage Memorial Society are in Liverpool to make the sequel to the bread firm's famous 1973 commercial. And as our ...
Call centre boss pledge to help brother.
Aug 02, 2008 ... A MILLIONAIRE call centre boss has vowed to try to help her former prison inmate brother despite him making repeated threats to kill her. Chey Garland, who runs the Garlands Call Centre, in Hartlepool, made the promise as her brother Kirk appeared at Teesside Crown Court charged ...
Private auction to boost hospice.
Aug 01, 2008 ... A KIND-HEARTED art teacher is hoping to give a charity a boost by auctioning one of his paintings. Geoffrey Allen-Crannage, subject leader in art and design at St Hild's School, Hartlepool, has painted a scene of the First World War's Battle of the Somme. Mr ...
Charity tribute to Pools' saviour.
Aug 01, 2008 ... THE family of the man widely recognised as the saviour of a football club have set up a fundraising event to raise cash for the people who nursed him through his final days. The event is being held as a tribute to former Hartlepool United chairman Harold Hornsey, who was ...
Hero groom-to-be home from hospital.
Aug 01, 2008 ... A BRAVE groom-to-be who pushed two friends out of the way of an oncoming Range Rover has left hospital and is recovering at home. Michael Laing, 25, was due to be flying out to Cuba to marry fiancee Kayleigh Cox until he was injured just days before the dream trip. ...
Bus company confirms cuts.
Aug 01, 2008 ... CIVIC leaders face an [pounds sterling]80,000 bill to save under-threat bus services used by hundreds of people a day. Operator Stagecoach plans to withdraw some evening and Sunday services unless the council finds the money to keep them running. Stagecoach has told ...
66 vehicles seized from town's streets.
Aug 01, 2008 ... DOZENS of illegal motorists have had their vehicles seized in the latest part of a police crackdown. Police took 66 vehicles off the streets of Hartlepool in just two months after motorists were collared for driving without a licence or insurance. The police ...
Council could be mortgage lender.
Aug 01, 2008 ... A COUNCIL could start to provide mortgages in a bid to beat the credit crunch and help people struggling to get on the housing ladder. Hartlepool Borough Council is set to discuss plans to provide mortgages, through a scheme that would cost [pounds sterling]5m over the next ...
Fraud crackdown nets [pounds sterling]200,000.
Aug 01, 2008 ... COUNCIL chiefs are clawing back [pounds sterling]200,000 worth of benefit fraud through the court system. Hartlepool Borough Council has stated it is committed to tackling fraud and will continue to clamp down on those that claim housing and council benefit falsely. ...