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Police had to close off a main road in our area yesterday after a car crashed through a wall and was left hanging over the road below;

It's been announced that workers at a Teesside footwear factory are facing redundancy as its owners looking to move production to south-east Asia;

...and the volunteers of the Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team have been called into action in our area.

Police had to close off a main road in our area yesterday after a car crashed through a wall and was left hanging over the road below.

Emergency services were called at around 1.20pm after a car collided with a wall off the High Street, in Brotton. 

The car crashed through a stone wall and metal railing between the main road and Wilson Street.

The front of the vehicle, including the two front wheels, could be seen hanging over the pavement below as police blocked off the road.

One patient suffered minor injuries and is understood to have made their own way to hospital.

It's been announced that workers at a Teesside footwear factory are facing redundancy as its owners looking to move production to south-east Asia.

Up to 90 jobs are under threat of redundancy as part of the proposed move by Coats, the owner of the Texon Skelton factory, which makes materials for trainers for some of the world's best known brands.

Coats has confirmed plans to close the Skelton operation which as been producing shoe materials since the 1970s.

The news comes about 15 months after Coats' $237m acquisition of Texon, which has operations elsewhere in Europe and Asia.

The firm said the measure was in response to market challenges.

The volunteers of the Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team have been called into action in our area.

At around quarter to seven on Wednesday evening, the team responded to a report of a person who had been found unwell in Newton Woods, below Roseberry Topping.

One fully-crewed Land Rover was sent to the scene and another Land Rover was used to shuttle others to a rendezvous point on Roseberry Lane.

A team doctor was the first to arrive. Together with ambulance personnel they provided appropriate casualty care and once other Team members arrived the person was packaged within a casualty bag for warmth and placed on a stretcher before being wheeled and carried approximately 650-metres to a waiting ambulance.