In Middlesbrough, I found drug dealers and their victims locked in a circle of despair
Ed Thomas
How town centres are recovering from the fall of Debenhams
April 2024
‘We have to get the basics right’: Labour’s Chris McEwan in Tees Valley
Boom and bust in the industrial north-east – in pictures
March 2024
The big picture
The big picture: life in the shadow of a Teesside ironworks by Graham Smith
The Middlesbrough-born photographer’s 1981 portrait has intimations of the gruelling working life endured by his father and of Britain’s lost industrial past
February 2024
Other lives
Mike Cumiskey obituary
Other lives: Artist and art teacher who exhibited widely and also wrote novels
January 2024
Teesworks review criticises freeport project’s secrecy and value for money
Gove refuses to set deadline for investigation into Tees freeport ‘corruption’
November 2023
‘If James Cleverly thinks Stockton’s a shit-hole, why not do something about it?’
People in the Teesside town say the home secretary should help to rally an area that has endured chronic political neglect rather than badmouth it
September 2023
‘We need more investment, not less’: UK voters on Sunak’s net zero rollback
‘Red wall’ constituents critical of prime minister’s plan to water down climate commitments
May 2023
Michael Gove orders review into corruption allegations at Teesside freeport
Investigation of Teesworks project to be led by independent panel of his choosing, not National Audit Office
June 2022
The dead shellfish littering our beaches tell you a lot about safety and secrecy in Britain
George Monbiot
Environmentalists fear a toxic disaster is occurring on the seabed, and the government denials seem less and less plausible, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
April 2022
Made in Britain
Made in Middlesbrough: it takes a village - video
Made in Britain
The cost of living crisis has been going on for decades – just ask families like mine
Sunita Ghosh Dastidar
March 2022
Headteacher defends plan for free ‘Etons of the north’ sixth forms
Eton head says rigorous admissions policy will prevent middle-class parents from gaming the system
A bridge to empire – and beyond: Sydney’s ‘coat hanger’ turns 90
The building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge was a powerful symbol of where Australia thought it was going – and who it was leaving behind
Former Radio 1 DJ Mark Page jailed over Philippines child sexual offences
Page, 63, sentenced to 12 years after being found guilty of arranging to abuse children as young as 12
February 2022
TV tonight
TV tonight: a rough diamond swaps lives with a millionaire
Soup kitchens and skincare regimes are explored in a Channel 4 documentary. Plus, Rise of the Nazis: Dictators at War. Here’s what to watch this evening
November 2021
Low taxes and levelling up: the great freeport experiment comes to Teesside
Cleveland police and crime chief faces sexual assault investigation
