Middlesbrough chosen on longlist for UK City of Culture 2029
By Baker Lillivick
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March 18, 2026
Middlesbrough will celebrate its creativity and innovation as it launches a bid to become UK City of Culture in 2029.
Residents at a Middlesbrough residential centre were given a literary treat with a visit from some young bookworms.
Major works at a key Middlesbrough junction are under way, with a renewed warning to motorists of significant disruption for several months.
Extra funding secured by PCC for much-needed victims’ services
By Baker Lillivick
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March 02, 2026
A Teesside charity has been awarded more than £91,000-worth of extra funding to support survivors of sexual violence and abuse recover from their ordeal.