Callum Barnes, Darlington: Firstly I just want to say that I love Middlesbrough and the rest of Teesside, the people are great and I always stick up for it when people put it down.

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Take Middlesbrough, a city in the northern Teesside conurbation.

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Middlesbrough mayor Ray Mallon highlighted the case when speaking to Look North about hundreds of troubled families being supported on Teesside.

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