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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 police officers were seen lining the streets on Wednesday for the funeral of a colleague killed in August’s horror collision on the A66.

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.

Armed cops have raided more homes in Middlesbrough – as gangland violence ravages the tinderbox town in the wake of the A66 crash.

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.

A Middlesbrough MP has condemned the violence gripping the town as ’terrorism’, with residents left ’trapped in their homes’ after nine people were killed and 19 arrests were made in less than a week.

A fundraiser for the families of two police officers who died in a crash on the A66 last Saturday has received more than £1 million donations.

A seven-year-old child and her aunt have been killed in Middlesbrough in a house fire believed to be linked to Saturday’s fatal A66 crash.

A murder investigation has been launched after two people have died in a house fire believed to be linked to Saturday’s fatal A66 crash.

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.

Twelve people aged 19 to 61 have been arrested in a probe following the fatal crash on the A66.

Two hero police officers were killed in a split-second horror when a car packed with five young men came racing the wrong way down the A66.

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.