News: Stockton Borough Council

The Stockton International Riverside Festival. Photograph: Stuart Boulton

Stockton International Riverside Festival returns in the summer with host of activities
THE Stockton International Riverside Festival (SIRF) Community promises a host of activities when it returns to the town centre this summer.

Site location plan for the Northern Spine Road, Wynyard Park. Picture: WYNYARD PARK LTD

Wynyard Northern spine road approved

Stockton's apprentice group in 2019 Picture: Dave Charnley Photography.

Here are the 38 apprenticeships of offer at council

Embargoed to 0001 Monday May 10..File photo dated 26/12/18 of shopping being carried in plastic carrier bags. UK retailers have cut their carbon emissions in half since 2005 and smashed environmental targets for the past year, according to new figures.

Man behind bars after stealing shopping and tuna from Home Bargains

Stockton Council has a multi-million pound hole in its road budget, councillors have heard

'Multi-million pound hole' in pot hole budget

Conservative candidate Steve Turner speaking as he was elected by a landslide vote

Conservative PCC candidate secures a landslide victory

Police carrying out search for Andrew Stones

Two men released without charge as murder investigation continues

Darlington Council. Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT

Revealed: The North-East council staff earning more than £100,000 a year

Fahad Anwar has applied for a licence to open a convenience store on Durham Road, Stockton. Picture: GOOGLE STREET VIEW

Former teacher wins bid to sell alcohol from new store on troubled patch

Cllr Jonathan Elmer is amongst those speaking out against the £2.1b plans

Councils urged to drop ‘monster incinerator'

Stockton Riverside Park vision. Credit: Ryder Architecture/Stockton Council.

Stockton makes case for moving Treasury jobs to town

"Best thing that’s happened since Juninho" - How Teesside reacted to new Covid vaccine

Stockton Council leader Cllr Bob Cook (Lab) and Stockton South MP Matt Vickers (Cons)

Simmering council tax row sees politicians at loggerheads over looming tax rises

David Hoggarth, strategic rail dorector for Transport for the North

Regional leaders to discuss what’s at the end of the line

Blue Badge parking permits are now available to people who meet 'hidden disability' criteria set by the DfT

'Shocking' blue badge approval rates for people with non-visible disabilities

hree firms battling to win £2bn household waste to energy plant contract

Three firms battling to win £2bn household waste to energy contract

Stock image of Covid testing

Covid: Asymptomatic people to be tested in Darlington and Stockton after new schemes launched

Darlington and Stockton among 67 councils to roll out community coronavirus testing programmes

Darlington and Stockton among 67 councils to roll out community coronavirus testing programmes

The North East Autism Society is expected to create around 250 jobs as demand for its services grows

Autism charity to create 250 jobs to help more families in region

Adoption Tees Valley, which is seeking to increase the speed in which children are adopted

Challenge over more children than adopters across Tees Valley

The Penny Black, in Langthorne Grove, Stockton

Police shocked by lockdown 'free for all' at Stockton pub

How the Stockton Globe will look

Chris Ramsey, John Bishop and Jools Holland among acts announced at Stockton Globe launch event

Officers worked alongside Stockton Council with shops selling fireworks

Police warning that illegal fireworks could result in six months in jail

Yarm town centre

MASTERPLAN: What the future could look like for these SIX town centres

91, Wembley Way in Stockton being boarded up

Stockton drug den which left neighbours 'on edge' shut down and boarded up

An image of a typical Bellway Durham street scene

Construction begins on Stockton housing development

Middlesbrough GP Dr Raj Khapra

Covid: Patchwork quilt of Teesside council boundaries leave people confused on new rules

A deserted Albert Park in Middlesbrough

Confusion over new Covid rules for Middlesbrough and Hartlepool

Albert Park in Middlesbrough

Covid: Local lockdown for Middlesbrough and Hartlepool

Motorcyclist in 60s killed in crash near Teesside Industrial Estate

Motorcyclist in his 60s killed after crashing into barrier

Darlington Mayor Chris McEwan, Stockton-on-Tees Mayor Mohammed Javed, Leader of Darlington Council Heather Scott and MP Peter Gibson as Steam Locomotive Tornado arrives

Tornado steams in to celebrate 195th anniversary of Stockton and Darlington Railway

Stockton councillor Ann McCoy, cabinet member for adult social care

Tense exchanges during debate on motion of thanks for Covid work

Run down buildings on the refused Thornaby Homes site, off Acklam Road Picture: TREVOR ARNOLD

Developer cries ‘witch hunt’ over planning refusal

SURVIVING: Stockton North MP Alex Cunningham said his local council was surviving on less than half the Government grant it had in 2010/11.

"VJ Day must not be forgotten" says Stockton MP

Matt Vickers MP for Stockton South

Updated Councillor complains he was "thrown out" of fiery meeting

Bitter Globe exchanges as reserves plan is passed

An example of bad parking, with Stockton councillors Louise Baldock (Lab) and Cllr Bill Woodhead (Ind), inset Picture: STOCKTON COUNCIL

Verge parking hotspots revealed – and housing association staff 'biggest culprit' in one area

Stockton Council leader Cllr Bob Cook (Lab) and Stockton Town Hall

Warning of tough times ahead as stark toll of Covid on Stockton is revealed

Councillor Lynn Hall. Conservative member for Hartburn ward on Stockton Council Picture: STOCKTON COUNCIL

Stockton Cabinet leaders agree reserves move as sparks fly over Globe

Cllr Tony Riordan, Conservative member for Norton West

'Frivolous spending' not Covid-19 caused Stockton Council budget shortfall, opposition claim

Stockton Council Leader Bob Cook

Stockton Council calls on Government to fill £6m black hole

Stockton Council Library. Picture: Alex Metcalfe LDR.

Stockton Council issue coronavirus update

Cllr Matt Storey, Labour councillor for Central WardImage by Middlesbrough Council. Credit Middlesbrough Council.Permission for use by all BBC partners

Fresh figures reveal almost 500 patients discharged to care homes without covid-tests on Teesside

Councillor Simon Henig, leader of Durham County Council and chairman of ANEC

Council leaders write to North-East MPs amid £272m shortfall in coronavirus support funding

‘Bring sites’ in Stockton

Nearly £9,000 of fines issued after appeal to stop 'hammering' recycling sites goes unheeded

The Association of North East Councils has written to the Government to ask for more funding

Coronavirus funding: How much have North-East councils been given to tackle pandemic?

Darlington’s Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) queues as it reopened yesterday

Updated Updated: Just two North-East rubbish tips are open

Andy Preston. Picture: CHRIS BOOTH.

Green waste collections gear up at two councils

Dog poo bags overflowing a bin on Blackwell Lane Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT

Here's how often North-East councils are emptying dog poo and litter bins

RSPB rent out part of nature reserve for Gas Power Station. Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT

'Disgust' at RSPB gas power station decision in Saltholme

The dwellings on Martin Herring's farmland in Aislaby

Farmer wins planning appeal to convert disused buildings into eight houses

Ben Houchen believes empty supermarket building at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough, could be used as an emergency hospital

CORONAVIRUS Houchen's hospital vision as virus outbreak spreads

Hampton by Hilton at Stockton

NHS staff could use Stockton’s Hampton by Hilton hotel

MP opposes plans for almost 1,000 new homes in Stockton