#Hartlepool

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[Hartlepool, UK]

Just Eat couriers in Hartlepool are going on strike!

Last week JustEat removed the 50p per order bonus for riders, who are already struggling with low pay during a cost of living crisis.

Support the riders outside KFC in Hartlepool Marina at 11am tomorrow!

@antifainternational @anarchistmemecollective @kropotkindersurprise @radicalgraff

[felucians]

UK poc, take care of your mental health as well as your safety. Check in with your friends, family and local community.

We all need each other right now

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Winston Churchill posant avec un pistolet-mitrailleur Thompson lors d'une inspection des défenses côtières à Hartlepool – 31 juillet 1940

Photographe : Major W. G. Horton - War Office official photographer

©Imperial War Museums - H 2646

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Hartlepool Bay

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Visited the Hartlepool branch of the National Museum of the Royal Navy on Thursday, including HMS Trincomalee. I’d highly recommend this small but very interesting museum.

[musicftmisfits]

Mt. Misery - Waking Up

North east-based indie outfit Mt. Misery have recently released their new single 'Waking Up', it's a hazy new indie release that offers a welcome break to a busy weekday.

North east-based indie outfit Mt. Misery have recently released their new single ‘Waking Up’, it’s a hazy new indie release that offers a welcome break to a busy weekday. They’ve created a no-nonsense and soft alternative sound that is rather refreshing and unhurried. Mt. Misery bring a less frantic sound to the scene and do so again on their latest single release. Recorded in a remote cottage…

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Protesters throw bricks at riot police in Hartlepool and London

Large-scale protests have broken out in Hartlepool and London, with demonstrators throwing bricks and other objects at riot police.

Protests in London

Hundreds of far-right protesters clashed with police in central London late Wednesday, a day after similar clashes in Southport, England.

The incidents in Southport, a seaside town in the northwest, occurred Tuesday after false reports, widely circulated by extremist far-right social media accounts, that the suspect in Monday’s knife attack in Southport that killed three little girls and injured several other children at a children’s dance class was an asylum seeker.

Police later said in a statement on website X that more than 100 people had been “arrested for offences including violent disorder, assaulting an emergency services worker and breaching protest conditions. Some police officers sustained minor injuries.”

Wednesday’s incidents followed riots in Southport, where hundreds of protesters instigated by members of the English Defence League (EDL), an anti-Muslim xenophobic fascist group, clashed with police after attacking a local mosque with projectiles. The incident was widely condemned by politicians after more than 50 police officers were injured.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer labelled the riots “thuggery” and promised that those involved would face the “full force of the law.”

Protests in Hartlepool

Copycat riots also occurred in the town of Hartlepool in north-east England, where far-right protesters were seen on social media throwing missiles.

The incidents took place in and around Murray Street, which is home to Muslims and a mosque. Local police said in a Facebook post:

There remains a policing presence in the Murray Street area while officers deal with disorder after responding to a protest – several arrests have already been made. The road is still closed, and people are advised to avoid the area.

The rioting continued into the early hours of Thursday morning. Rioters set a car on fire and also published footage shows a man of Asian appearance being punched in the face.

Misinformation

Following the incident, far-right groups immediately began spreading misinformation that the Southport attacker was a Muslim immigrant.

Far-right groups such as the EDL and Britain First, as well as convicted far-right fascist activist Tommy Robinson, played an active role in spreading rumours about the identity of the knife-wielding attacker. Since the attack, more than 100,000 social media posts under the hashtag #enoughisenough have been viewed millions of times.

Authorities said on Thursday morning that a 17-year-old boy arrested after the stabbing in Southport has been charged with three counts.

Read more HERE

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Administration building on the 1904 St. Louis World Fair, MO, US

American "hold to light" vintage postcard, mailed in 1904 to Hartlepool, England

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Anthony Fineran (B 1981)

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Waiting For Work - Hartlepool 1963

Politically passionate and one of the first working class reporters at the BBC, Jack Ashley wanted to show the suffering caused by high unemployment in Hartlepool. With no work, no prospects, and little money, Ashley asked how the unemployed reacted to their situation in an increasingly affluent society.  The documentary caused a storm when it was first shown in 1963, bringing Hartlepool’s…

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RSPCA rescues cat trapped in boarded-up Hartlepool house for ten days

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RSPCA rescues cat trapped in boarded-up Hartlepool house for ten days

Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276 Visit Shots! now Felix, a four-year-old female black and white cat, had been missing from her Hartlepool home for 10 days before her owner, Joanne Keir, heard a familiar cry. She followed the sound to a boarded-up house in in Furness Street and […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/2nxnF #CatsNews #Hartlepool, #HumanInterest, #Rspca

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TheRealEFL’s National League Predictions – Week Two

This weekend will see the 12 remaining National League sides take part in their first home matches of the campaign, hoping to follow on from what was an extremely entertaining opening day weekend last week… Taking part in the predictions for League One, League Two and the National League this week will be senior editor Callum (Coventry fan), Head of content Ryan (Lincoln fan), writers Kelan…

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Roundhay, Leeds' Peter Wass fatally stabbed in Chapeltown; 3 people arrested in Hartlepool

Peter Wass of Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom has died. He was 29. At around 2:30 p.m. on March 2, 2023, a man, 21, allegedly stabbed Wass in an incident in the street near to the junction of Hamilton Place and Hamilton Avenue in Chapeltown, Leeds. The victim was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Detectives have named Peter Wass, 29, from Roundhay, as…

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I know Stockton isn’t top of the polls right now but we NEED the Teesside rep please please please <333

What if I wrote an early Victorian era supernatural horror mystery where the occupants of one street have to figure out which one of them is killing the others with no police and no aristocracy and set it in a city other than London?

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UK riots: outbreak, evolution, interim results

The past six days have brought the biggest riots in the UK since the summer of 2011, when the Metropolitan Police shot and killed a Black man in North London.

For Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, and other Labour figures, the violence and its causes are largely linked to national-oriented racism and anti-immigration intolerance. However, some of the boroughs where the most intense riots took place have no immigration issues, UnHerd reports.

In Sunderland, police faced “serious and sustained levels of violence” during riots last weekend when buildings and cars were torched. In Tamworth, where a viral video showed rioters attacking a migrant hotel, 0.5% said they were Muslim, whereas 95.8% described their ethnic group as “white.” Around 1,000 protesters were involved in violent clashes, with police horses separating anti-immigration and anti-racist protesters in Blackpool.

These case studies show that there is no precise rule about which places are most likely to experience riots, whether ethnically homogeneous or diverse. Yet places where people feel neglected and completely abandoned by the South East – the centre of power and the only money-making region – are more susceptible to violent protest. Starmer stated on Tuesday:

Whatever the apparent motivation, this is not protest; it’s pure violence and we will not tolerate attacks on mosques or on Muslim communities.

Meanwhile, the West Midlands police chief and a Manchester major are urging people to avoid taking part in any disorder following the riots in recent days.

They made a video to make it clear that police have “no double standards” and respect Muslim migrants. A police officer began the address by saying “[As-]Salaam-Alaikum,” a traditional Arabic greeting.

Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster condemned the “disgraceful” scenes of disorder that had broken out across the country and declared that West Midlands Police would not tolerate it, according to BirminghamLive.

I want to make it clear that there is no place for division, hate or racism and it will not be tolerated in the West Midlands. My advice to everyone, is that I strongly urge you to avoid gathering at any events and that you allow the police to carry out their essential duties, on behalf of the public.

Read more HERE

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Early morning, West Hartlepool, County Durham, England, 1963 - by Don McCullin (1935), English