- A fundraiser for the families of PCs Matthew Blades and Tom Clough has closed after raising more than £1.2m.
- The two officers and five young men died in a wrong‑way head-on crash on the A66 near Middlesbrough on 22 August.
- Donors described the officers as heroes; the money will be split equally between the two families.
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