The building, on Church Street in Hartlepool, is described as a “unique opportunity” to own a business on the coast.

According to the listing, the area has become a “thriving seaside hotspot” after recent investment and is a popular destination for both locals and visitors.

The ground floor space includes a “carvery style restaurant to the left.” (Image: Collier Estates)

A private gated car park lies behind the building, which the agent says is “rare” for the location.

Described as a successful business, the Church Street venue includes eight guest bedrooms.

The listing notes the guest rooms cater for single, twin, double and family occupancy, and that the accommodation “has just recently enjoyed a refurbishment”.

The Church Street venue includes eight guest bedrooms. (Image: Collier Estates)

Visitors return year after year, according to the information provided.

The ground floor space includes a “large café to the right” and a “carvery style restaurant to the left,” described as being equal in size – both have been refurbished.

A main reception hall sits at the centre of the building, with stairs leading to guest rooms above.

Courtyard. (Image: Collier Estates)

A fully equipped commercial kitchen is fitted to the rear of the main building, centrally located between the café and restaurant.

Wrapping around a private courtyard and beer garden, which is promoted as “an ideal space for guests to enjoy alfresco dining of evening drinks,” there is a large, single story apartment.

The apartment, which is currently rented out on a long term rental, has its own separate private access.

According to the listing, it could also be used by an owner or manager, provide extra guest accommodation, or potentially be used as games rooms or communal lounges.

Access to the private car park is available via a gate beyond the central courtyard.

The location is also close to Hartlepool Town, Hartlepool Marina and a range of local amenities.

Yvonne Ford was scratched by a dog in Morocco but was only diagnosed with rabies months later

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An inquest into the death of a woman has heard how it was too late to save her life when she was diagnosed with rabies.

On Tuesday (March 3), Sheffield Coroner’s Court heard how Yvonne Ford suffered a variety of strange symptoms which stumped medics for weeks.

The 59-year-old grandmother had gone to hospitals in Barnsley and Wakefield several times, reporting an insect bite above her ankle.

However, it wasn’t until she was referred to a mental health team at Barnsley Hospital last June that she was diagnosed with rabies, reports Yorkshire Live.

A rabies expert said doctors at Barnsley Hospital “were on the right track” as they struggled to find a diagnosis for Yvonne’s rare symptoms.

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The Barnsley grandmother had been bitten by a stray dog in Morocco after she got up from a sunbed and startled it. The dog scratched her leg, but the family thought little of the wound, simply wiping it with a wet wipe and not receiving any additional treatment. Yvonne, who leaves behind two children and four grandchildren, died at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, assistant coroner Marilyn Whittle explained to the jury of nine women and three men.

The inquest heard how Yvonne was admitted to Barnsley Hospital on June 2 after several medical appointments in March and April. She was suffering from “severe headaches” and a range of other symptoms, including poor mobility, struggling to drink, hallucinations, anxiety, disorientation and severe agitation.

Doctors at Barnsley Hospital were unable to provide a diagnosis, the jury was told. Junior doctor Dr Awan said: “In view of her current symptoms, we were still trying to find the organic cause. At the moment when we asked about travel history, it was made known that there were some insect bites above the ankle. We were investigating some kind of tick bite encephalitis.

“We were still trying to find if it was neurological or if there was any other cause. There was unexplained anxiety. For the nausea, we weren’t too sure. For the dehydration, there was no working diagnosis. Essentially, there was no working diagnosis at this point.”

On June 6, she was referred to the mental health liaison unit at Barnsley Hospital. Psychiatrist Dr Alex Burns reviewed Yvonne and admitted he had concerns about an infectious disease causing her hallucinations, agitation and anxiety.

Dr Burns said: “I had asked about travel, and I had asked about insect bites. It was very unclear what the diagnosis was. I wanted to think a bit more outside the box and think about rare conditions, including travel-related ones.” Yvonne’s husband informed Dr Burns they had travelled to Morocco in February. He told Dr Burns Yvonne was bitten by a dog on a beach after she startled it by getting up from a sunbed.

Dr Burns added: “I didn’t know all of the symptoms of rabies at that point, but after I spoke to Yvonne’s husband, I did speak to the medical team in the office, and that was to discuss what I had found out so far. At that point, because my knowledge of rabies was limited, I did look into it more regarding the symptoms, and it became clear that all of Yvonne’s symptoms could be explained by that diagnosis at that point.”

Yvonne’s daughter, Robyn Thomson, told Dr Burns: “We see you as a turning point into mum’s care, and we thank you for that.”

Rabies expert Dr Katharine Cartwright, consultant physician at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, defended the medical treatment Yvonne received. “This was a rare presentation of something rare. This was incredibly rare,” she said.

“A rabies diagnosis is so unusual, so out of everyone’s experience, I think it’s not unreasonable for it not to have been considered within a few days. Half of the American rabies diagnoses were made post-mortem. The fact we got a diagnosis of rabies before Yvonne died is good.”

Dr Cartwright explained that there had only been 26 recorded rabies cases in the UK since 1946. Once bitten or scratched, rabies has a near-100 per cent fatality rate, she said, adding: “Once the symptoms start, death within a couple of weeks is the norm. That means the virus has started to replicate in the brain, and it’s not salvageable from that point.”

Dr Cartwright said there was “no way to say when the virus reached her spinal cord”, after which there was no medical treatment. She said the cause of death was 1a rabies encephalitis.

Donald Trump has said he is “not happy” with the UK over its approach to the Iran conflict, declaring that Sir Keir Starmer is “not Winston Churchill”.

Speaking at the White House, the US president unleashed another rant about the UK, claiming Sir Keir had been “very uncooperative” and “ruined relationships” over Iran and the Chagos Islands.

The US president has hit out at Britain several times since the US launched strikes on Tehran, criticising Sir Keir for not immediately allowing the US to use British bases to attack Iran.

Speaking about support from European nations for US action in Iran, Mr Trump added: “I’m not happy with the UK either.”

Appearing to refer to the Diego Garcia base in the Chagos Islands, Mr Trump added: “That island… It’s taken three, four days for us to work out where we can land there, it would have been much more convenient landing there as opposed to flying many extra hours, so we are very surprised.

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“This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with.”

The US president went on to express his disapproval at Britain’s deal to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius, saying the UK has “ruined relationships” over the “stupid island”.

“Spain has been very uncooperative, and so has UK. Now the second one is shocking, but this is not the age of Churchill,” he said.

“I will say the UK has been very, very unco-operative with that stupid island that they have, that they gave away and took a 100-year lease; having to do with, perhaps, indigenous people claiming the island that never even saw the island before. What’s that all about?”

Last week, the deal was plunged into fresh chaos after a minister suggested his plan to cede sovereignty of the British territory had been paused after Mr Trump urged him to scrap it. The Foreign Office later claimed that the minister “misspoke” and rapidly issued a clarification saying that “there is no pause”.

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Mr Trump added that he “loves” the UK, but criticised the government’s approach to energy and immigration as “horrible”.

The president repeated his calls for Sir Keir to open up the North Sea to drilling, telling reporters: “They’ve got windmills all over the place that are ruining the country, ruining the landscapes, ruining the beautiful fields.

“Open up the North Sea.”

Turning to speak about the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Mr Trump called him an “incompetent guy”, and also claimed the UK has “Sharia courts adjudicating law”.

Earlier, Downing Street insisted the US is still a “staunch” ally after Mr Trump launched another broadside against Sir Keir over the Middle East war.

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Mr Trump had claimed Sir Keir had “not been helpful” and called the transatlantic rift “very sad” in an interview with The Sun on Monday.

“This was the most solid relationship of all. And now we have very strong relationships with other countries in Europe,” he said.

“It’s not going to matter, but (Sir Keir) should have helped… he should have.

“I mean, France has been great. They’ve all been great. The UK has been much different from others.”

He had also told The Telegraph he was “very disappointed” in the Prime Minister, after the UK’s initial decision over the weekend.

A former police officer took selfies while on duty at the scene where a teenager had been killed, a court has heard.

Ryan Connolly, 41, then a serving officer with Merseyside Police, was on duty at the cordon of the scene where 16-year-old Daniel Gee-Jamieson was killed in Belle Vale, Liverpool, in 2018.

It was then that he took photos of himself in the area, Manchester Crown Court heard, ‘instead of guarding the scene’.

Prosecutor Peter Wilson showed the jury photos found on Connolly’s phone, which included one selfie showing the officer standing up in his police uniform and another of him lying on the grass.

The court heard nothing sensitive could be seen in the images, which also included pictures of police tape at the scene.

The former constable of Huyton, Merseyside, denies four charges of misconduct in a public office.

Wilson said Connolly was arrested in February 2020, and when his mobile phones were seized, a number of photographs were recovered from the sent folder of the messaging app WhatsApp.

He said: ‘The images are mainly of members of the public who are clearly being dealt with by Merseyside Police.

‘They also include pictures of other police officers on duty or even selfies of the defendant himself whilst he is on patrol guarding a murder scene.’

Twenty-four photos found on devices showed people who were detained at police stations, hospitals or mental health premises.

The jury heard some photos showed members of the public as they lay on hospital beds, were receiving treatment or were in handcuffs.

One image showed a missing child after he was found and taken to a police station, and another showed two people who appeared to be asleep in bed, the court heard.

In a statement read to the court, one woman, shown hiding in a cupboard in a photo, said she found it ‘degrading and upsetting’.

Connolly is also accused of taking pictures containing details of force systems, suspect images and police incident logs.

Wilson said: ‘The prosecution says he has wilfully misconducted himself by taking inappropriate photographs where, we say, there is no professional need to do so. He’s then retained them and sent them on.’

He said Connolly’s actions had crossed the threshold and amounted to an abuse of the public’s trust in the police.

Mr Wilson said the defendant claimed the images, on his personal mobile phone, were taken for work purposes, but the court heard they had not been uploaded to police systems.

The trial is expected to last four to five days.

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Fan site WikiGacha is already overwhelmed with traffic as it offers the joy of opening trading card booster packs without charging you a penny.

One of the big problems with collectible trading card games, like Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon, is that they’re a huge money sink if you want to play competitively or are a completionist.

That’s partially why Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket for mobile is so appealing. since you can earn cards daily for free, but the game still tries to tempt you to part with money. to more frequently open booster packs.

But the premise of an entirely free collectible card game is now a reality, thanks to one of the most charmingly strange fan creations we’ve seen in a while: a Wikipedia gacha game.

Labelled Wikipedia Gacha, or WikiGacha for short, and created by someone known only as Harusugi, the website lets you open up to 10 booster packs a day; each of which contains five cards.

You can open more packs by completing daily missions, like opening five packs or actually visiting Wikipedia, and there’s also an achievement list to complete.

The cards don’t just exist to be collected, though, as the site has its own battle system. It’s not super complicated, but every card does have its own attack and defence stat.

However, you don’t build decks, you just pick one card to fight another and whichever depletes the other’s health first wins. So it’s more like Top Trumps.

Attack is determined by a Wikipedia article’s popularity, with the number of pageviews it has multiplied by the rarity of the card. Defence, meanwhile, is determined by the content length of an article multiplied by card rarity. So, the more popular and dense an article, the stronger its associated card.

As for how the game determines the rarity of each card, it’s based on another unofficial website, WikiRank, which grades Wikipedia articles on their popularity.

This is why, based on our own pulls, our anadasmus caliginea card is treated as a common card with low stats, while our Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary card is a Super Rare card with an incredibly high defence stat.

Currently, there are options to have a random battle (it’s unclear if it’s against other players or just an AI opponent) or take on a raid battle, with the site promising plans for a story mode of consecutive battles.

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We weren’t able to open many packs or test the battle system out much, since the website seems to be struggling with heavy traffic at time of writing, but that’s go to see.

The simple act of opening booster packs is inherently moreish and since it’s all completely free, all you’re losing is time. Although there is an option to donate to the creator’s Buy Me A Coffee page.

Plus, with how many Wikipedia articles there are, there’s a surprise factor to seeing what cards you’ll obtain. What other game has cards based on author James Maxey, the 1986 Virginia Slims of Arizona tennis tournament, and Hurricane Waldo?

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WINDER, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man who gave his teenage son the gun he’s accused of using to kill two students and two teachers at a high school was convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter Tuesday.

Jurors took less than two hours to find Colin Gray guilty of all charges in the September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, northeast of Atlanta. Gray is one of a number of parents prosecuted after their children were accused in fatal shootings across the country.

Colin Gray was found guilty of second-degree murder in the deaths of two 14-year-old students, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo. Georgia law defines second-degree murder as causing the death of a child by committing the crime of cruelty to children. Gray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the killings of teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53.

Another teacher and eight other students were wounded. Gray was also convicted of multiple counts of reckless conduct and cruelty to children.

He showed little emotion as the verdict was read and then as he watched each juror being polled by the judge. Deputies then handcuffed him behind his back as he stood at the defense table, consulting with his lawyer. He will be sentenced at a later date. Second-degree murder is punishable by at least 10 but no more than 30 years in prison, while involuntary manslaughter carries a penalty of one to 10 years in prison.

Some relatives of victims wept as the verdicts were read. They declined to comment after court. Gray’s defense lawyers left the courthouse without speaking to reporters.

“We talk a lot about rights in our country,” Barrow County District Attorney Brad Smith said after the verdict. “But God gave us a duty to protect our children, and I hope that we remember that, as parents, as community members, to protect our children because that is our God-given duty.”

The teen’s mother, Marcee Gray — who testified that she had urged Colin Gray to take any guns and lock them inside his truck so they were not accessible to their son — declined to comment when reached by phone after the verdict. She and Colin Gray were separated in the months leading up to the shooting, and Colt lived mostly with his father during that time. She wasn’t charged in connection to the shooting.

Prosecutors said Gray gave his son, Colt, access to a gun and ammunition “after receiving sufficient warning that Colt Gray would harm and endanger the bodily safety of another.”

Colt Gray, who was 14 at the time of the shooting, was indicted on a total of 55 counts, including murder. He has pleaded not guilty and the judge in his case has set a status hearing for mid-March.

Investigators said Colt Gray carefully planned the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting at the school attended by 1,900 students.

He boarded the school bus with a semiautomatic, assault-style rifle in his book bag, the barrel sticking out and wrapped in poster board, investigators said. He left his second-period class and emerged from a bathroom with the gun and then shot people in a classroom and hallways, investigators said.

Colin Gray had given his son the gun as a gift the Christmas before the shooting and allowed him to have access to the gun and ammunition, despite his awareness that his son’s mental health had deteriorated, a prosecutor said.

Colin Gray knew his son was obsessed with school shooters, even having a shrine in his bedroom to Nikolas Cruz, the shooter in the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, prosecutors said.

Gregor Poynton has met with Blair McDougall, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Small Business and Economic Transformation), to press for urgent action to secure the future of Uphall Post Office.

Livingston’s MP has raised the Uphall Post Office closure directly with the UK Government’s Post Office Minister.

Gregor Poynton has met with Blair McDougall, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Small Business and Economic Transformation), to press for urgent action to secure the future of Uphall Post Office.

Mr McDougall holds ministerial responsibility for the Post Office. During their meeting in Westminster, Mr Poynton outlined the impact the closure of Uphall Post Office is having on local residents, older people, and small businesses who rely on services in the village.

The Uphall branch on West Main Street closed following the resignation of the previous postmaster.

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Mr Poynton raised concerns about the disruption this has caused and sought assurances about what support the Government can provide to help Post Office Ltd secure a new postmaster and restore services as quickly as possible.

He said: “The closure of Uphall Post Office has had a real and immediate impact on local constituents. For many residents and small businesses, the services provided by the Post Office is essential.

“I met directly with the Minister responsible for the Post Office to make clear the strength of feeling locally and to ask what support can be offered to help secure a new postmaster for Uphall.

“It is vital that Post Office Ltd moves at pace to appoint a new operator and restore full services. I will continue working at every level, locally and nationally, to secure the long-term future of post office provision in Uphall.”

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Mr Poynton has pledged to remain in close contact with the Minister and with Post Office Ltd while a new operator is sought.

It is not yet known how long the West Lothian village will be left waiting for the restoration of the service.

The Post Office area change manager wrote to residents and local representatives in February to inform them of the decision.

He said: “We are writing to inform you that, regrettably, following the resignation of the postmaster.

“The provision of a Post Office service to our customers in the local community is important to us, and we will continue to work hard to restore services in the area as soon as possible.

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“We would welcome any applications from potential retail partners interested in running a branch locally on our behalf.

“We apologise for the inconvenience the closure may cause. We hope that our customers will continue to use Post Office services and details of possible alternative Post Office branches in the area.”

A statement released by West Lothian Council earlier in the week said: “Uphall Post Office on West Main Street, is set to close from 6pm on Wednesday, February 18, following the resignation of the postmaster at the branch.

“The Post Office is welcoming applications from interested parties to ensure a post office service can be continued in the area.”

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