A dead porpoise washed up on a Hartlepool beach has been causing concern from beachgoers who "had never seen something like that before". Denise Cockerill, 60, was walking her niece along Crimdon ...

Police have cordoned off a beach near Hartlepool after a man began driving erratically on the sand. Emergency services have been in attendance at Seaton Carew throughout the afternoon. They say ...

Hartlepool Borough Council has voted to prohibit people from drinking alcohol in parks alongside the Seaton Carew promenade at all times. Drinking alcohol has been banned during the day for people ...

Experts say they cannot remove a stranded dead whale from a beach. The animal, believed to be a minke or fin whale, washed up on Hartlepool's Headland beach on Sunday and remains there days later.