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Cannabis plants believed to be worth around £70,000 have been seized by Proactive Team officers in Middlesbrough;

It's been announced that a landmark bridge in our area will be shutting down for summer while £1.5m of maintenance work is carried out;

...and a religious group with a global following has submitted plans to build a new gospel hall on a community site in Nunthorpe.

Cannabis plants believed to be worth around £70,000 have been seized by Proactive Team officers in Middlesbrough.

On Saturday, officers acting on information from members of the public attended an address on Aldridge Road, where there were three bedrooms found with mature cannabis plants, with a street value of up to £70,000.

Electrics in the property had been bypassed and were made safe by technicians from the electricity board. 

Anyone who may have information regarding suspicious activity they believe to be linked to drugs is asked to contact Cleveland Police on the non-emergency number 101.

It's been announced that a landmark bridge in our area will be shutting down for summer while £1.5m of maintenance work is carried out.

Newport Bridge will be temporarily closing from Monday, July 8, and the work is expected to last for around seven weeks.

The maintenance carried out by Balfour Beatty will include bridge joint and bearing replacement, new drainage channels, waterproofing and carriageway resurfacing.

Throughout the works, signed traffic diversions will be in place, with access maintained for businesses only.

The project, which in total will be costing around £1.5million, is a joint venture between Stockton Council and Middlesbrough Council. 

A religious group with a global following has submitted plans to build a new gospel hall on a community site in Nunthorpe.

Middlesbrough Council leaders previously agreed to sell a five-acre parcel of land, off Stokesley Road, to the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. A planning application has now been submitted to the local authority for a new wood-clad hall, which would be built near the doctor's surgery and a proposed community centre.

Seating in the main hall of the proposed new church would hold up to 982 people and the plans include 284 car parking spaces.

The Plymouth Brethren was established in the early 19th century in a break away from the Anglican church and now has more than 50,000 members across the world.

The church has an existing hall of worship at Gypsy Lane which it says it has now outgrown.