More than two hundred extra officers have been drafted in to assist Cleveland Police following a series of violent incidents across Middlesbrough. The surge comes after a woman and seven-year-old girl died in a Grangetown house fire on Wednesday, just one mile from a head-on crash on Saturday that killed two police officers and five young men. A vehicle also crashed into a wall on Steele Crescent early on Thursday. […]

A woman killed in a house fire near Middlesbrough has been described by her mother as a beautiful soul who would have done anything for anybody. Thirty-four-year-old Natalie McDonald died alongside her seven-year-old niece, Valentina Foster, in the blaze in Grangetown early on Wednesday. Cleveland Police confirmed a forty-eight-year-old woman remains critically ill in hospital, while three others received treatment for non-life-threatening injuries. Two men, aged twenty-three and thirty-one, have […]