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Four suspects in a Stokesley burglary have been arrested following a police pursuit;

A man has been arrested after being caught by police at the scene of a burglary;

...and the volunteers from the Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team have been called into action twice at the weekend.

Four suspects in a Stokesley burglary have been arrested following a police pursuit.

As part of an investigation into a burglary at a business premises in Stokesley, North Yorkshire Police officers identified a vehicle they believed to be involved.

At around 5.20am on Friday, the vehicle was seen travelling through the Teesside area.

It was then followed by officers from North Yorkshire Police and Cleveland Police who intercepted it in Middlesbrough centre at around 5.30am.

The occupants of the vehicle, four men aged 18, 20, 21, 32, were arrested on suspicion of burglary and taken into police custody.

Officers say that the investigation into the burglary is ongoing.

A man has been arrested after being caught by police at the scene of a burglary.

A member of the public contacted police shortly after midday on Saturday to report a burglary on Virginia Gardens in Middlesbrough, with a suspect still at the scene.

Officers from Middlesbrough Response arrived at the scene within just three minutes of the call coming into police and arrested the suspect.

The 23-year-old man was subsequently arrested on suspicion of burglary and taken to police custody for questioning.

The volunteers from the Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team have been called into action twice at the weekend.

At around ten past one on Saturday lunchtime the team were alerted to a fallen climber in Scugdale near to Swainby.

The climber had sustained potentially serious injuries and after treatment by paramedics and Team members, he was secured him within a vacuum mattress and carried him on a rescue stretcher to a Yorkshire Air Ambulance helicopter and was then flown to hospital.

Then at twenty five to five on Saturday the team were alerted to report of an injured mountain biker on one of the tracks below the Cleveland Way at Kirby Bank, about 1.5 kilometres east of Lordstones Cafe.

The rider was treated by Team members for a serious leg injury before being stretchered and wheeled him for a kilometre to a Team Land Rover. He was then driven to a rendezvous point at Beak Hills Farm where he was then transferred to an ambulance.