Another poll due after councillor decides to quit

A second council by-election in just over two months is to be held after an independent councillor stood down from his role.

- Nic Marko

Steve Wallace had represented the Throston ward on Hartlepool Borough Council since May 2023 when he was successful in the local elections.

He was elected as a Labour councillor but resigned from the party two months later, citing a “falling out with a certain section” of the political group, before sitting as an independent. He has now resigned to “hand the baton on to a younger generation” ahead of a by-election on Thursday, July 10.