Archive - The Teesside Lead

Is Tees Valley regeneration possible without development corporations?

Plus: A deep dive into 350-page TVCA budget documents

Mar 15 • Leigh Jones and The Teesside Lead

The seagrass helping to battle coastal erosion

An environmental revolution taking place on the muddy banks of Teesside's rivers and coastline

Mar 11 • Leigh Jones and The Teesside Lead

Teesworks boss hotel plans approved despite 'negative impact' of housing

Kirklevington Hall, better known as the former Judges hotel in Yarm, is owned by Chris Musgrave

Mar 8 • Leigh Jones and The Teesside Lead

Hartlepool Council forced to increase council tax after disastrous government meeting

Government showed "arrogance, indifference and moral bankruptcy" according to the council leader. Something the minister Steven Reed disputes.

Mar 4 • Leigh Jones and The Teesside Lead

Financial consultants netting £40k to sort out combined authority mess

Accounts for 2023-24 at Tees Valley Combined Authority yet to be published

Mar 1 • Leigh Jones and The Teesside Lead

February 2026

Liberty Steel plant in Hartlepool bought by unknown foreign investor

Plus: the Darlington nurses back in the headlines, you read it here first though

Feb 25 • Leigh Jones and The Teesside Lead

What's happening with council tax in the Tees Valley?

A council-by-council look at how much it's going up

Feb 22 • Leigh Jones and The Teesside Lead

The Hartlepool shipping containers fighting for the River Tees

And meeting the superhero oysters helping to fightback against pollution

Feb 18 • Leigh Jones and The Teesside Lead

How SeAH Wind's biggest order was cancelled and why it's important

The only tenant on Teesworks appears to be facing a storm brewing as chief exec replaced and production delayed

Feb 15 • Leigh Jones and The Teesside Lead

Teesworks only tenant replaces chief exec after production delays

Plus: KP respond over Billingham factory strike

Feb 11 • Leigh Jones and The Teesside Lead

Third strike vote in six months held at KP Snacks

Union members at the Billingham factory, which produces Skips, McCoy's and more, vote in favour of walking out

Feb 8 • Leigh Jones and The Teesside Lead

Hartlepool MP labels Peter Mandelson a 'traitor'

Jonathan Brash accuses his predecessor in Parliament over latest Epstein files disclosure

Feb 4 • Leigh Jones and The Teesside Lead

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