1. Relive day two of the County Championship as it happenedpublished at 18:53 British Summer Time 22 April 2021

    Relive day two of the County Championship as Joe Root fails for the second time in Yorkshire's game at Sussex.

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  2. 'Smart' bins in £60m broadband upgrade planpublished at 07:58 British Summer Time 22 April 2021

    The solar-powered bins send an electronic signal when they are full.

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  3. Assombalonga & Fletcher to leave Boropublished at 21:17 British Summer Time 21 April 2021

    Middlesbrough's out-of-contract strikers Britt Assombalonga and Ashley Fletcher will not feature for the club again.

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  4. Relive day one of the County Championship as it happenedpublished at 20:56 British Summer Time 21 April 2021

    Relive day one of the County Championship as Joe Root falls for just five and Yorkshire are bowled out for 150 at Sussex.

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  5. Boro end winless run with win at Rotherhampublished at 20:01 British Summer Time 21 April 2021

    Middlesbrough end a five-game winless run as they come from behind to beat Championship strugglers Rotherham.

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  6. Family complains over 30-year murder investigationpublished at 15:52 British Summer Time 21 April 2021

    Durham Police is accused of concentrating on Ann Heron's husband and ignoring other evidence.

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  7. Zero carbon target council sends waste 300 milespublished at 15:03 British Summer Time 21 April 2021

    Redcar and Cleveland Council says "urgency" forced it to sign the short-term contract.

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  8. Six arrested over murder of man found in woodspublished at 12:57 British Summer Time 21 April 2021

    Police say Tomasz Dembler could have been killed weeks before.

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  9. Listen: Eastleigh v Sutton Unitedpublished at 12:53 British Summer Time 21 April 2021

    Listen to BBC radio commentary from Saturday's action in the National League.

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  10. Man admits brother's one-punch deathpublished at 11:37 British Summer Time 21 April 2021

    Jordan Bell died in hospital two weeks after he was struck by Dominic Robson during an argument.

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  11. Council condemns abuse of Polish familypublished at 10:42 British Summer Time 21 April 2021

    Youths have been shouting obscenities and vandalising the family's car.

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  12. Hull City 2-2 Sunderlandpublished at 22:05 British Summer Time 20 April 2021

    Hull City are within touching distance of automatic promotion to the Championship after a draw with third-placed Sunderland.

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  13. Championship: Dike earns Barnsley big win at Huddersfieldpublished at 18:23 British Summer Time 20 April 2021

    Follow live text updates from Wednesday's seven Championship games, including Rotherham v Middlesbrough.

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  14. Newcastle sign Rouen back-row Fearnspublished at 17:18 British Summer Time 20 April 2021

    Newcastle Falcons sign back-rower Carl Fearns from French Pro D2 side Rouen with immediate effect.

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  15. Sage staff 'delighted' with £1m lifeline donationpublished at 17:16 British Summer Time 20 April 2021

    Earlier this month the venue received a £3m loan from the government's Culture Recovery Fund.

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  16. 'Idiotic' scrap man had 'precarious' car on vanpublished at 16:12 British Summer Time 20 April 2021

    Police say the car "perched precariously" on the van was "one of the most idiotic things" they had seen.

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  17. Council boss defends IT security over cyber attackpublished at 12:12 British Summer Time 20 April 2021

    Local Democracy Reporting Service
    Stuart Arnold

    The leader of Redcar and Cleveland Council has defended its IT security over a cyber attack, which left it without online services for weeks.

    Councillor Mary Lanigan said: “There was nothing wrong with our systems – this was a foreign attack that came into Redcar and Cleveland. It had a ransom attached which we did not pay.”

    The cyber-attack is estimated to have cost more than £10m and left about 135,000 people without online public services in February 2020.

    Councillor Mary Lanigan, Leader of Redcar and Cleveland council

    Councillors are confident conditions attached to the payment of a £3.6m government grant intended to help with the costs of the cyber attack will be met.

    It will be paid to the council early next month but all, or some, of it could be clawed back if conditions are not met.

    They include the authority providing an independent assessment by the end of September on work undertaken to recover from the cyber attack, and a financial assurance review, commissioned by the Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick’s department to be completed by the end of July.

    Councillor Glyn Nightingale, cabinet member for resources, said: “Some of the work has already gone into fulfilling these conditions in order to provide the government with due diligence so it could assess whether we [got] any money or not.”

    Ms Lanigan said: “We tried to get as much money as we could [from the government] and it has been a tremendous effort from Redcar and Cleveland to get that done.”

    Redcar and Cleveland council building
  18. Men arrested on suspicion of murder releasedpublished at 11:00 British Summer Time 20 April 2021

    Police issue a fresh appeal for help to find who killed Andrew Stones, who vanished in October.

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  19. Polish family 'broken' by racist attacks on homepublished at 10:44 British Summer Time 20 April 2021

    Youths have been shouting obscenities and vandalising the family's car.

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  20. Busy weekend for pubs and bars in Middlesbroughpublished at 16:17 British Summer Time 19 April 2021

    Stuart Whincup
    BBC Look North

    Police on Teesside have praised the vast majority of reopened pubs, bars and restaurants for doing their best to follow the coronavirus rules.

    This weekend saw queues on streets and packed outside seating areas, with people meeting for the first time in months, as restrictions eased.

    Sarah Best from Dr Watson's said Saturday night was had given them some challenges.

    "It's totally crazy, it's like being in a playground, it's like trying to keep the customers seated and trying to keep the customers from not retaliating because they're not used to drinking and it's like a different world to what we were before the pandemic started," she said.

    Customers in a beer garden sitting at tables

    Officers were on patrol across the town checking premises were trying to keep people safe while trying to build up their businesses again.

    Julie Spensley from The Dickens, where a queue had formed while people used track and trace to check in, said it was a good atmosphere

    "Everybody's really happy, everybody has been really, really good, we can't believe how good everyone has been," she said.

    Cleveland Police says it will continue to encourage and explain rules to licensed premises but will take enforcement action if premises don't follow the law.

    Queue outside a Middlesbrough pub