More than 200 extra police officers have been drafted in to help Cleveland Police keep “innocent residents” safe following a string of violent incidents across Middlesbrough which have left nine people dead.
Investigations were continuing after a woman and a seven-year-old girl died in a house fire in Grangetown, near Middlesbrough, on Wednesday, which was only a mile away from the scene of the head-on crash on the A66 on Saturday which killed two police officers and five young men.
