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A mother duck curled up on top of her eggs in a plant pot with a water tray on her left and a flowering plant on her right.

Teesside stories you may have missed this week

Stories from Teesside include attempts to incubate eggs after the death of the mother duck.

Ex-mining town worst hit by Pip cuts, study claims

Researchers look at the possible effects of disability benefit cuts across English constituencies.

Dr Sue Robson smiling next to her daughter Tina Robson in a selfie. They both have straight platinum blonde hair. Sue is wearing a scarf and Tina a black jacket.

Nature haven in woman's memory to 'change lives'

Dr Sue Robson says she has a "passion" to help women affected by trauma and addiction.

A man can be seen on a stony beach holding a fishing rod above the surf of a grey-brown sea near the shoreline. He has his back to the camera and is wearing a red jacket.

'Largest' beach angling contest to cast off

The fishing competition is held on the East Yorkshire coast between Bridlington and Spurn Point.

Ellington colliery in Northumberland. A man in a hi-vis and hard hat stands on top of a grey steel structure containing two lift wheels at the pit head.

Call for ex-coalfields to become green energy hubs

Labour MP Grahame Morris says the move could reverse the damage done by the closure of the pits.

A bespectacled man in a jumper and a man in a flat cap stand either side of a Christmas tree clad with tinsel. A board featuring the initials "NUM" stands to the left of the picture.

'No presents, no heating - but it was the best Christmas we ever had'

Gifts were unaffordable for many during the 1984 Miners' Strike - but families made the most it.

Custody photographs of Mark Moran with red short hair and Daniel Livingstone with curly brown hair and beard and glasses both wear grey t-shirts

Two jailed for role in £42m cocaine smuggling plot

The two men from Scotland helped land the 524kg of drugs in a dinghy on the East Yorkshire coast.

A small inflatable-type boat abandoned at Easington beach, close to the sea, with cannisters lined up in a row closer inshore

Man 'played key role' in £40m cocaine conspiracy

Mark Moran, 23, was found guilty by a majority verdict of conspiracy to import Class A drugs.

A car park with multiple packages on the ground allegedly containing cocaine

Cocaine smugglers 'thought it was tobacco' - court

Mark Moran, 23, and Anthony McAllister, 33, deny plotting to import £40m worth of drugs.