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Homes had to be evacuated after a suspicious package was found in an empty property in Middlesbrough;

Work has begun to clear the site around what will be a new multi-million swimming pool for the Greater Eston area;

...and members of the public are being invited to an internationally renowned interactive street theatre spectacle called The Whale which will appear on Redcar beach this weekend in a powerful statement about the environment and climate change.

Homes had to be evacuated after a suspicious package was found in an empty property in Middlesbrough.

Workmen are believed to have discovered the item at a property in Abingdon Road just after 2pm yesterday.

It led to some nearby homes being evacuated.

A police cordon was in place for several hours to close off access to the public as officers waited for the arrival of an explosive ordnance disposal team.

As a precautionary measure, road closures were in place along Park Lane towards Abingdon Road junction with Victoria Road and Waterloo Road.

Bomb disposal experts arrived at the scene at 5pm, and all roads reopened an hour later.

Work has begun to clear the site around what will be a new multi-million swimming pool for the Greater Eston area.

Demolition of the adjacent and now empty Pathways School building began on Friday and its clearance will allow for improvement work on the wider complex area surrounding the new pool.

The pool will meet Sport England's 'competition standard' specification for major events, to begin later this year.

The new swim centre is designed to replace the closed Eston Swimming Pool which would have cost more than £3 million to repair.

The pool, to be built on the site of the old one will have a 25-metre swimming area with six lanes, a changing 'village' and capacity for 150 spectators.

Members of the public are being invited to an internationally renowned interactive street theatre spectacle called The Whale which will appear on Redcar beach this weekend in a powerful statement about the environment and climate change.

The highly successful cultural event, which involves a hyper-realistic looking statue of a sperm whale which is found washed up on the beach.

As part of the spectacle, a team of performers acting as scientists run tests for three days to find out why it happened.

The whale has been created by Belgium-based artistic group, The Captain Boomer Collective in cooperation with sculptors from Zephyr Wildlife reproductions. 

The event is taking place on Majuba beach in Redcar tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday between 9am and 4pm each day.