Yarm,also referred to as Yarm-on-Tees,is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees,North Yorkshire,England. It is in Teesdale with a town centre on a small meander of the River Tees. To the south-east,it extends to the River Leven,to the south it extends into the Kirklevington.
Middlesbrough is a town in the Middlesbrough unitary authority borough of North Yorkshire,England. The town lies near the mouth of the River Tees and north of the North York Moors National Park. The built-up area had a population of 148,215 at the 2021 UK census. It is the largest town of the wider Teesside area,which had a population of 376,633 in 2011.
Redcar and Cleveland is a unitary authority area with borough status in North Yorkshire,England.
Ray Mallon is a British politician who served as the independent Mayor of Middlesbrough from 2002 to 2015. Prior to his political career he served in the police until he resigned after pleading guilty to charges of misconduct.
The Tees Valley is a combined authority area in North East England,around the lower River Tees. The area is not a geographical valley;the local term for the valley is Teesdale. The combined authority covers five council areas:Darlington,Hartlepool,Middlesbrough,Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees.
Stockton South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since December 2019 by Matt Vickers,a Conservative MP.
Middlesbrough is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom,recreated in 1974,and represented since 2012 in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Andy McDonald from the Labour Party. An earlier version of the seat existed between 1868 and 1918.
Middlesbrough Council,formerly known as Middlesbrough Borough Council,is the unitary authority for the Borough of Middlesbrough,North Yorkshire,England. The authority has combined some duties with nearby councils to form the Tees Valley Combined Authority. Middlesbrough Council's area had a resident population in 2001 of 134,855. The borough has two parishes,which are entitled to an additional lower-tier council,Nunthorpe and Stainton and Thornton.
Stephen Gibson is a British entrepreneur and the chairman and owner of Middlesbrough Football Club. In May 2020,he was listed 481st on the Sunday Times Rich List,with a net worth of £270 million.
Andrew Joseph McDonald is a British politician and solicitor who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough since 2012. He served as Shadow Secretary of State for Employment Rights and Protections in Keir Starmer's Shadow Cabinet between 2020 and 2021. Previously,he served as Shadow Secretary of State for Transport in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet from 2016 to 2020. He lost the Labour Party whip for giving a speech containing the phrase "between the river and the sea" in October 2023 during the Israel-Hamas war. Consequently,he currently sits as an independent MP.
The Middlesbrough and Teesside Philanthropic Foundation is a philanthropic and charitable institution that was established in March 2011 in Middlesbrough,England as a patriotic and activist group which aims to raise money from businesses and affluent individuals to make Teesside a better place in which to live,work and do business. Andy Preston set up the foundation with the help of Tanya Garland and since launch Preston has recruited the financial backing of more than 40 businesses and individuals. Businesses involved as patrons of the Foundation include Middlesbrough Football Club,Steve Gibson's Bulkhaul,Cleveland Cable Company,Barclays Middlesbrough and AV Dawson.
Christopher David Budd is a British politician. He served as the Mayor of Middlesbrough from 2015 until 2019. When elected,he became the second person to hold the post,having succeeded Ray Mallon.
CEO Sleepout UK is a charity that raises money to fight homelessness and poverty across the UK. Money is raised by business executives being sponsored to sleep rough for a night.
The inaugural Tees Valley mayoral election was held on 4 May 2017 to elect the mayor of the Tees Valley Combined Authority. The mayor was elected by the supplementary vote system. Subsequent elections will be held in May 2021 and every four years after 2024.
Ben Houchen,Baron Houchen of High Leven,is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as Tees Valley Mayor in May 2017 after winning the 2017 mayoral election,defeating Labour candidate Sue Jeffrey by 2.2 per cent in the second round. He was re-elected in 2021,defeating the Labour candidate,Jessie Joe Jacobs by a landslide 72% of the vote.
Middlesbrough started as a Benedictine priory on the south bank of the River Tees,its name possibly derived from it being midway between the holy sites of Durham and Whitby. The earliest recorded form of Middlesbrough's name is "Mydilsburgh",containing the term burgh.
The Borough of Middlesbrough is a borough with unitary authority status in North Yorkshire,England,based around the town of Middlesbrough in the north of the county. It is part of the Tees Valley combined authority,along with Stockton-on-Tees,Redcar and Cleveland,Hartlepool and Darlington boroughs. Nunthorpe along with Stainton and Thornton have statutory parish councils.
Middlesbrough Development Corporation (MDC) is a publicly-owned mayoral development corporation created to fund,manage,and accelerate regeneration in Middlesbrough town centre and Middlehaven,England.
Chris Cooke is a British Labour Party politician. Since May 2023,he has been the directly elected Mayor of Middlesbrough. By virtue of being Mayor of Middlesbrough,he is a member of the Tees Valley Combined Authority Board and the Cleveland Police and Crime Panel.
The 2023 Middlesbrough Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect all 46 members of Middlesbrough Council and the directly-elected Mayor of Middlesbrough. This was on the same day as other local elections across England.
