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Zetland FM Local News - 26th March 2020
The number of Coronavirus cases in our area has increased once again;
Further measures have been taken by Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council in response to the impact of the Coronavirus outbreak;
...and a man has been left with a court bill of over £850 after he was spotted throwing a wrapper on a footpath.
The number of Coronavirus cases in our area has increased once again.
According to the latest figures published yesterday evening by Public Health England, there are currently 10 confirmed cases in Redcar and Cleveland, out of a local population of just under 137,000 people. That figure has increased from 7 yesterday.
There are currently 9 cases confirmed in Middlesbrough, an increase of 2 since yesterday.
Further measures have been taken by Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council in response to the impact of the Coronavirus outbreak.
The Council announced yesterday that it has suspended charges in all its pay and display public car parks until further notice for the benefit of key workers who continue to travel to work at a time when most people remain at home.
In addition it has taken the decision to reopen all allotments across the borough.
The Council is encouraging all residents to follow the Government’s guidelines on social distancing and not to congregate at popular visitor destinations including the coast.
A man has been left with a court bill of over £850 after he was spotted throwing a wrapper on a footpath.
Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council prosecuted the Grangetown man for littering after he failed to pay a fixed penalty notice.
51 year old Christopher Hill was seen throwing a white food wrapper onto a footpath in Dormanstown.
Hill, of Clynes Road, was spotted by two council officers on the Trunk Road on 29 March 2019.
At Teesside Magistrates' Court on 16 March, Hill was fined £220 and ordered to pay a £32 victim surcharge in his absence.
Costs of £600 were also awarded.