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A Teesside school at the centre of a Coronavirus scare has closed its doors for a deep-clean after staff and pupils "showed flu-like symptoms";

The volunteer crew of the Redcar RNLI lifeboat were called into action in our area yesterday;

...and Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council have said that they will be removing items from an area of land in Saltburn unless the owners take and move them first.

A Teesside school at the centre of a Coronavirus scare has closed its doors for a deep-clean after staff and pupils "showed flu-like symptoms".

Trinity Catholic College in Middlesbrough said it will reopen on Monday after discussions with Public Health England.

It had announced earlier on Tuesday it was sending home 36 pupils who had been on a school skiing trip in northern Italy, along with eight members of staff.

But the school now say that a "small number of pupils and staff began showing mild flu-like symptoms" on Tuesday.

Anyone who went on the trip, which saw pupils spend eight days near Verona, should now be tested, said the school.

It's understood that a small number of pupils are now being tested.

The volunteer crew of the Redcar RNLI lifeboat were called into action in our area yesterday.

Just before quarter to midday yesterday the Atlantic 85 lifeboat was launched to an incident on the River Tees.

However shortly after launch the crew were stood down en route and returned to the lifeboat station at Redcar.

Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council have said that they will be removing items from an area of land in Saltburn unless the owners take and move them first.

Posting on Facebook, the council says that next week they will be asking the owners of items stored on an area of council land in Saltburn to move their property by 31 March.

Almost 20 items are positioned outside the boat park on the sea front near Cat Nab.

The council has said that they will remove them at the end of next month and place them in storage and if they haven’t been collected.