Give this guy a couple of quid...

Emp_Fab

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-56475313

He's lost everything for standing up and doing the right thing.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/seanivey

Kittyfrisk

Saw it, bloody low life petty career criminals  Sadly happens all too often in otherwise quiet areas & old pit villages.
Pedantic, but Wingate in County Durham is not in the Tees region 

munckee

Our local cemetery has been covered with graffiti over the last week. A bloke my wife went to school withs mums grave was defaced. 

He put a photo of £500 cash on Facebook and said whoever gives him the name of one of the gang gets it. 

Don’t blame him. 

Bellycaster

Fucking Scum of the Earth whoever did that!

Logie

Wingate used to be a bit posh when I lived up north. It's where the clever kids in my area went to grammar school but it sounds like the toerags have moved in. Good to see people rallied round for them.