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Positive local stories, useful developments and people making a difference in public health.

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Free Stoptober bus brings quit-smoking support to Hartlepool, Billingham and Stockton

A specialist NHS team will take free quit-smoking advice into Teesside communities on four October dates, backed by a 12-week support programme.

Opening of the drug and alcohol treatment centre on Whitby Street in Hartlepool

Hartlepool signs recovery-city pledge as £3.2m support centre beds in

Hartlepool Borough Council has joined the Inclusive Recovery Cities movement, building on a new Whitby Street treatment centre and local work to make recovery more visible and supported.

Middlesbrough Council: Mayor’s praise for food campaign as new distribution centre opens

Middlesbrough Mayor Chris Cooke has praised the impact of FareShare North East after the food charity opened a new distribution centre in the town. The charity works with supermarkets and the wider food industry to get perfectly good to eat surplus food to local organisations. Food is distributed each week from the Tees Food Hub […]