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The father of one of the teenagers killed in the A66 crash has been charged with assaulting a mourner at his son’s funeral.

Hundreds of people gathered in Middlesbrough for the funeral of an A66 “joyrider” – shutting schools and roads amid fears of disorder.

A number of schools in Middlesbrough are closing early on Friday as the first funeral for one of five young men killed in a head-on crash on the A66 takes place.

Once a booming 19th-century powerhouse at the centre of the UK’s steel, iron and shipbuilding industry, Middlesbrough was a proud example of British business success on the northeast coast.

Hordes of balaclava-clad youths lit flares and set off balloons in a "vigil" for the dead A66 "joyriders" - just as mourners silently prayed for the two PCs killed in the same crash.

The five people who died in a collision with a police car have been named by police after driving the "wrong way" down the A66 near Middlesbrough.