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Council tax bills are landing on doormats after local councils and precept charging authorities agreed their budgets for the 2022/23 financial year from April;

A man has been detained by police after an alleged hit and run collision in central Middlesbrough;

...and three structures have been brought to the ground in controlled explosions at former industrial works sites in our area.

Council tax bills are landing on doormats after local councils and precept charging authorities agreed their budgets for the 2022/23 financial year from April.

Here in Redcar and Cleveland the council froze council tax after a previous proposal to impose a 1.99% increase was reversed.

However the local authority chose to impose a 2% rise in the adult social care precept the Government allows councils to levy - and the additional £1.4m in funding this will generate being ring-fenced and transferred directly to the sector to part-fund continuing pressures.

A man has been detained by police after an alleged hit and run collision in central Middlesbrough.

The incident occurred yesterday afternoon with reports from the scene emerging just after 1pm.

Witnesses claimed that a dark coloured Renault crashed into a bus on the junction between Borough Road and Albert Road.

The car then stopped outside University Boulevard, with officers from Cleveland Police detaining a male at the scene. 

There have been no reports of injuries from the incident.

However, the car and bus involved were badly damaged. The Renault had a series of large dents along the driver's side and chunks missing from the front, the bus also losing a large chunk of the front under the driver's side.

The busy Middlesbrough road was closed for a short period whilst officers at the scene dealt with the debris left from the collision. A recovery vehicle then arrived at the scene to take away the battered car from the area.

Three structures have been brought to the ground in controlled explosions at former industrial works sites in our area.

A loud bang was heard and flashes were seen at the base of the junction houses 40 and 41 on the former Redcar steelworks before they crumbled to the ground on Wednesday.

Just over an hour later, the South Bank gas holder was brought down - the last major structure within the South Bank zone.

The demolition is part of the clearing works at the developing Teesworks site where thousands of new jobs are expected to be created.

The area covers approximately 4,500 acres of land to the south of the River Tees and includes the former SSI steelworks site as well as other industrial assets.