👨‍🎨 NORTHERN SCHOOL OF ART - LETS GET BUILDING! 🎨 It is great that we have been able to provide £14.5m for this vitally important project for the school, which is hugely important to the whole of the Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool, with its reputation as a national centre for excellence in the art, design and creative sectors. As part of my plan for jobs – creating good quality local jobs for local people across Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool – we need to make sure our young people
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👨‍🎨 NORTHERN SCHOOL OF ART - LETS GET BUILDING! 🎨 It is great that we have been able to provide £14.5m for this vitally important project for the school, which is hugely important to the whole of the Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool, with its reputation as a national centre for excellence in the art, design and creative sectors. As part of my plan for jobs – creating good quality local jobs for local people across Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool – we need to make sure our young people
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Major new investments across our area is leading to massive investment in skills and education so that we make sure local people, our communities and future generations have the opportunity and skills to get one of the amazing jobs that are here now! 💪 As many of you will know, TTE is a well loved technical training provider which was a spin off from ICI and British Steel many years ago. Recently it moved into Middlesbrough College Group in 2020, who have been doing an incredible job investing
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Major new investments across our area is leading to massive investment in skills and education so that we make sure local people, our communities and future generations have the opportunity and skills to get one of the amazing jobs that are here now! 💪 As many of you will know, TTE is a well loved technical training provider which was a spin off from ICI and British Steel many years ago. Recently it moved into Middlesbrough College Group in 2020, who have been doing an incredible job investing
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Building a brighter future for our children 💪 Badger Hill Primary School in Brotton, part of the Northern Education Trust, is incredible. They’re officially in the top 1% of schools in the country and are 9th in the country for reading (out of more than 22,000 schools!). 👩‍🏫 It was amazing to present their awards and talk to them about the amazing opportunities that are arriving in our region and the children also heard from AngloAmerican and SSE who are building the Dogger Bank wind farm. 💨
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Building a brighter future for our children 💪 Badger Hill Primary School in Brotton, part of the Northern Education Trust, is incredible. They’re officially in the top 1% of schools in the country and are 9th in the country for reading (out of more than 22,000 schools!). 👩‍🏫 It was amazing to present their awards and talk to them about the amazing opportunities that are arriving in our region and the children also heard from AngloAmerican and SSE who are building the Dogger Bank wind farm. 💨
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💼 Trainees get paid. No cost to the business. What’s not to like? Our Youth Guarantee Trailblazer programme is giving 18–21-year-olds who aren’t in education, employment or training the chance to get high-quality paid placements and work tasters - helping them get a foot in the door and start building a career. 🚀 We’ve secured up to £5million for this programme - with £3million specifically for paid placements - so there’s no cost to businesses taking part. This is a golden opportunity: For yo
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💼 Trainees get paid. No cost to the business. What’s not to like? Our Youth Guarantee Trailblazer programme is giving 18–21-year-olds who aren’t in education, employment or training the chance to get high-quality paid placements and work tasters - helping them get a foot in the door and start building a career. 🚀 We’ve secured up to £5million for this programme - with £3million specifically for paid placements - so there’s no cost to businesses taking part. This is a golden opportunity: For yo
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This is exactly what our Youth Guarantee Trailblazer is all about - helping our young people build skills, find new opportunities, and get stuck into the world of work 🚀 🙌 A huge well done to the team at Cleveland Fire Brigade for giving a group of local young people the chance to learn real skills and get a taste a role in the Fire Service | Ben Houchen - Tees Valley Mayor
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This is exactly what our Youth Guarantee Trailblazer is all about - helping our young people build skills, find new opportunities, and get stuck into the world of work 🚀 🙌 A huge well done to the team at Cleveland Fire Brigade for giving a group of local young people the chance to learn real skills and get a taste a role in the Fire Service | Ben Houchen - Tees Valley Mayor
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🎥 Apprenticeship Event at Teesside Airport. ✈️ Brilliant to see so many young people, parents and carers exploring local apprenticeship opportunities and meeting world-leading employers right here in Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool. 💼 With billions in investment coming into our region, demand for skilled local workers is huge. Apprenticeships help local people get into great careers - earning while they learn, and building real skills for life. This is what it is all about 💪 If you're thi
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🎥 Apprenticeship Event at Teesside Airport. ✈️ Brilliant to see so many young people, parents and carers exploring local apprenticeship opportunities and meeting world-leading employers right here in Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool. 💼 With billions in investment coming into our region, demand for skilled local workers is huge. Apprenticeships help local people get into great careers - earning while they learn, and building real skills for life. This is what it is all about 💪 If you're thi
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🔥 REAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOCAL YOUNG PEOPLE 🔥 Right now, Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool are leading the way in creating high-quality jobs for the next generation. We welcomed bp students from the Teesside Clean Energy Technician scholarship to Teesworks - and they were blown away by the sheer scale of what’s happening and the huge number of apprenticeships on the horizon. ✅ 750 job opportunities coming ✅ Hands-on experience in cutting-edge industries ✅ Real pathways into apprenticeships a
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🔥 REAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOCAL YOUNG PEOPLE 🔥 Right now, Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool are leading the way in creating high-quality jobs for the next generation. We welcomed bp students from the Teesside Clean Energy Technician scholarship to Teesworks - and they were blown away by the sheer scale of what’s happening and the huge number of apprenticeships on the horizon. ✅ 750 job opportunities coming ✅ Hands-on experience in cutting-edge industries ✅ Real pathways into apprenticeships a
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Ben Houchen has done more in 7 years than Labour did in 30 years. Ben is taking bold decisions for Tees Valley and we’re delivering a brighter future for Britain. | Rishi Sunak
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🛫 Your Exciting New Career Could Take Off at Teesside! We’ve teamed up with Hartlepool College and Airbourne Colours to launch a brilliant new Aircraft Painting Trainee Programme, giving local people the skills they need to start great careers in aviation. 👩‍🎨 After initial training at Hartlepool College, trainees will get hands-on experience at Airbourne’s impressive new facility at Teesside Airport - leading to internationally recognised certification and fantastic long-term job opportuniti
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Apprenticeships play a key role in creating the strong local workforce we need here in Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool 💪 It's great to have WSP, who've helped us deliver huge projects like SeAH Wind's offshore wind turbine monopile facility on Teesworks, leading that charge 👊 Former apprentice Ben is now thriving in his role, managing a portfolio of over £40million. 👉 This is why we're working hard to bring investment to Teesside - to create more good-quality opportunities for our young p
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Planet Normal: Tees Valley Mayor, Ben Houchen on Reform and the future of the Tory Party | Podcast
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🎙️ This morning I was in the hot seat on BBC Tees’ Mayor’s Question Time and was asked about plans for a new AI Data Centre at Teesworks. A project of this scale would create thousands of long-term jobs, attract more investment, deliver greater future-proof growth than any alternative, and will put our region at the heart of the next industrial revolution in AI and tech. 👇 Here’s what it would mean for Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool. | Ben Houchen - Tees Valley Mayor
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💼 From Apprentice to Full-Time Success - Lewis' Story! 🎉 Meet Lewis, one of our fantastic local apprentices who’s just smashed his Business Administration Apprenticeship with distinctions across the board! 🌟 Starting at just 16, Lewis grabbed the opportunity to earn, learn, and get real experience at Tees Valley Combined Authority. Now, he’s landed a full-time role in the marketing team, proving the incredible value of apprenticeships as a launchpad for success! 🚀 👏 Huge congratulations, Le
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After reading the Eye's special report on how Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen’s flagship “levelling up” project became a taxpayer-funded scandal, a reader writes... Watch the full episode of Page 94 on YouTube. | Private Eye Magazine
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✅ Another big milestone at Teesworks! We've just completed a key part of an £18m drainage project, meaning rainwater can now flow safely from our South Bank site into the River Tees. 💧 Why does it matter? Well, better drainage means we can keep building new factories, attract more businesses, and create thousands of jobs for local people. 🏗️👷‍♂️ Plus, we've created a natural wildlife area where the water meets the river, helping protect local wildlife and habitats. 🦢🌿 It's real progress tha
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🗳️ The LOCAL Mayoral election on May 2nd isn’t about national politics or the nonsense that happens in Westminster. It’s about who’s the best person to lead Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool 🥇 My ONLY loyalty is to the people of our region ❤️ I’m not directed, whipped or told what to do by any political party. That’s why I’ve consistently tried to put politics aside (even when others have done the opposite) and do what’s best for our community. 🤝🏻 Party politics does not dictate what I do.
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👀 Here's how our £140m transformation of Darlington Station will look 👇 We've made incredible progress on work so far in preparation for completion in 2025 👊 🛤 In the past few weeks work has kicked off on the two new platforms that'll help us boost the capacity of the station and deliver better rail services. That's on top of the new entrance on the eastern side of the station, a new a footbridge and a new multi-storey car park with spaces for more than 650 cars 🚗 | Ben Houchen - Tees Valle
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🌍 From Setback to Success: How Tees Valley Labs Helped Carl Go Global 🧱 After nearly 30 years in bricklaying, Carl Harris’s life was turned upside down when a wall collapsed on site, leaving him with life-changing injuries. But out of that came The Brick Bud - a unique wall-bracing system that can withstand winds of up to 73mph and stop other bricklayers facing the same ordeal. Carl says joining Tees Valley Labs was the “turning point”: “Without them, there may well not be a Harris Brick Safet
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🛠️ MEET DALE – BUILDING A CAREER WITH SeAH WIND 💪 Fantastic to hear from Dale Cliff, a 23-year-old apprentice from Stockton, who's training in fabrication and welding at Hartlepool College, as part of SeAH Wind’s huge £900 million investment in our area. Through our Tees Valley Move Forward programme, Dale got practical support preparing for interviews and building his skills - and now he's on a path to a secure, skilled career right here at home. Over 90% of SeAH's workforce are local, creati
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15 letters, ZERO reply. The Health Secretary confirmed on BBC Radio Tees last month that he’d be happy to meet me to discuss my plans to rebuild North Tees Hospital, so we wrote to him again. That’s now fifteen times in total I’ve written to him, and still nothing. This isn’t good enough for local patients and NHS staff who have to put up with a hospital that’s not fit for purpose. We’re cracking on locally anyway, working with the NHS and the Integrated Care Board to keep plans moving. I’ll kee
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🚍 Free Bus Travel for Care Leavers 🙌 From Monday 17 November, care leavers across Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool will be able to travel for free on local buses until the age of 25 with the brand new Tees Pass 🚌 Every young person deserves the chance to get on in life - whether that’s through work, training or education - and being able to get around easily is key to making that happen. This new scheme will help care leavers access more opportunities right across our region, removing a hu
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🎙 On today’s Mayoral Question Time on BBC Radio Tees, I was asked about crime and anti-social behaviour in Middlesbrough Town Centre, and how we can restore local pride and confidence in the high street. I’ve pledged £1.5m to bring in new Town Guards - properly vetted, with real powers, working alongside Cleveland Police to make a real difference to the Town Centre 👮‍♂ And let me be clear: local businesses won’t foot the bill for this. When I became Mayor, I made a commitment that I would neve
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As Mayor I’ll work with anyone who can help me deliver for all of you. Well, today I met with all of the Mayors from across the country and the Labour Chancellor to bang the drum for our area to get more money and more powers back from London so I can continue to deliver jobs, investment and opportunities for local people. | Ben Houchen - Tees Valley Mayor
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🚧 MILESTONE MOMENT 🚧 The project to deliver a world-leading carbon capture energy plant at Teesworks has hit a major milestone after the UK Government granted approval ✅ Net Zero Teesside (NZT) Power - under development by partners bp and Equinor on the former Redcar Blast Furnace site – has been given the green light after a detailed planning process lasting more than two years ♻ The project will create and support up to 4,000 jobs during construction and operations and add up to £300million
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Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen has held his first of a new series of in-person question time sessions 🗣️❓ Members of the public attended Yarm School’s Princess Alexandra auditorium to quiz the Mayor on topics covering the local bus network, developments at Teesworks, plans for autonomous trams and how to regenerate Middlesbrough town centre 🛍️🚌 The Mayor will be hosting further events across the five Tees Valley boroughs where you can ask your questions. Keep an eye out for further dates and v
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Oh, stop it, you’re making us blush 😚 From saving time to supporting local, people are choosing Teesside Airport and they’re here to tell us exactly why ❤️ 📍 Quick. Easy. On your doorstep ✈️ Less hassle, more holiday 🏡 Convenient Have a little listen to some of the chats we had with passengers recently👇 Oh, and do let me know if you spot any famous faces 👀 | Ben Houchen - Tees Valley Mayor
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🚨 PLANS FOR GRESHAM GET THE GREEN LIGHT 🚨 Planning permission has officially been granted for the £200million transformation of Gresham – a huge step forward for Middlesbrough! 🏗️ This isn’t just a facelift. It’s one of the biggest investments in the town centre in a generation – delivering: 🏨 A brand-new hotel 🏘️ 240 top-quality build-to-rent homes 👩‍🎓 Student accommodation for 400 young people It’ll create jobs, support our brilliant local businesses, and help drive Middlesbrough’s grow
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I was asked on BBC Tees about the idea of a permanent tribute to Chris Rea and I think it’s a great idea 🎶 Chris was a proud Middlesbrough man whose songs put our town on the map around the world. From Steel River to Driving Home for Christmas, his music means something real to people here ❤️ If there’s a way we can work with Middlesbrough Council and local partners to make a fitting, permanent tribute happen, I’m more than happy to help take that forward 🤝 We should always celebrate the peopl
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🌍✈️ Big news for Teesside from Saudi Arabia This week I was in Riyadh meeting with the leadership of Alfanar - a fantastic company who investing in our area, creating good quality local jobs. I can confirm, following these senior level talks, that Alfanar are fully committed to investing $2billion to build a new industrial facility producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) - one of the biggest investments of its kind anywhere in the UK. For Teesside this will bring: ✅ Around 2,000 construction
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🚧 Remediation Works Complete for bp’s NZT project! 🌍💪 150 acres transformed ✅ 1.3 million cubic metres of material remediated. ✅ 2.6 million tonnes of earthworks completed. ✅ 4,000 jobs during construction and operation 👷‍♂️👷‍♀️ We don’t just talk about big projects – we get them DONE 💪 It’s about jobs, opportunity, and investment right here in Teesside. We’re making it happen, and we’re not slowing down 🚀 🎥 Watch the video to see the scale of what’s been achieved and what’s coming next!
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