YOUNGSTERS are to receive some personal training to get them fit for Healthy Lifestyle Week this month. Bannatyne's Health Club, in Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough, has teamed up with Chandlers Ridge Primary School, in Nunthorpe, to help promote healthy living among the children.

By ANDREW PAIN STUDENTS risked blistered hands and aching limbs to help transform a Teesside dell into a haven for birds. Sixth formers from King's Academy, Coulby Newham, helped decorate a bird hide created by the Friends of Fairy Dell.

It was very off-putting to see, in the pages of the Gazette, a member of the Middlesbrough Mayor executive committee cavorting in the silt at Fairy Dell. It seems he cannot be aware that the silt is contaminated, although the council is aware of that fact.

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By Andy Passant Detectives are warning residents to be on their guard against a postal scam on Teesside. The alarm was sounded by Cleveland Police after scores of Middlesbrough residents received an official-looking note through their doors.