Residents need to feel safe after deadly crash and fire near Middlesbrough, council leader says

Residents of Grangetown and South Bank need to feel safe in their own homes after a deadly crash and fire claimed lives in the past week, according to Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council leader Alec Brown. Brown said people surviving a municipality where nine radical person been killed in a clang and occurrence during the past week merit to "feel harmless successful their ain homes". He noted that seven individuals, including two constabulary officers, died in a car crash at South Bank, adjacent Middlesbrough, on Saturday. A 34‑year‑old pistillate and a seven‑year‑old miss lost their lives in a house occurrence in Grangetown on Wednesday. Brown told Radio 4's Today programme that he had called an "urgent meeting" on Friday among councillors, police and social housing providers. Teesside MPs also called for the authorities to supply much enactment for police and firefighters in the area. Police have made several arrests in connection with the recent deaths. Brown said he understood radical from parts of Middlesbrough and Redcar might feel "left behind". "I'm from an estate, from the same kind," he said. "You live among people that may be suffering poverty or other social issues, it can be that a kind of feeling that 'we're left behind'." "But I can guarantee the people of Grangetown and South Bank – they're as important to me as a people from any other authority in the borough and we're working tirelessly to guarantee that they feel safe in their own houses."