Improving Hartlepool Podcast

We start off congratulating Michael Rice for his recent EuroVision success and then a brief statement about Skint Britain. We take a look at cycling initiatives proposed in Hartlepool, we then move onto the UK film market and the film studios in Hartlepool that are set to be the largest outside of London, and a wartime rescue boat is in Hartlepool to be restored and put on display.

We have Mark Goodman & John Cook from the Hartlepool United Supporters Trust, we also have Vicky Burton from the Hartlepool United Community Sports Foundation & last but not least we have Abi Knowles & Lisa Lavender from the Hartlepool Foodbank

We look in to community groups & neighbourhood forums. The Care home that’s been proposed on Merlin Way. Then an event recently held by the Hartlepool Fabian Society titled "What Can One Town Do to Improve Education". We ask if a luxury cinema would work in Hartlepool? And the last item I am reviewing One Stop at The Saxon on Easington Road.

We take a look at the Hartlepool Holiday Hunger Scheme. We then move onto the empty commercial and industrial buildings around the town. Then take a look at a video released by the Hartlepool independent group and ask is it true? It’s then on to the launch of Improving Hartlepool website, and some of the community features it is to offer. We also have another two regular features

Featuring in this episode of the podcast is £1.6million for potholes, 34% of children in Hartlepool living in poverty, the proposed Waterfront Development, the results of a signage audit recently conducted, and the first ever Would it Work where we take a look in to ideas or what’s happening in other parts of the country or even the world this section is called Would it Work and

The Improving Hartlepool Podcast is looking in to community matters, how Hartlepool could be improved, how it could be a better place to live & work and everything else in-between.