Middlesbrough (borough)

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Borough of Middlesbrough

Geography
Status:	Unitary, Borough
Ceremonial County:	North Yorkshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 296th 53.87 km²
Admin. HQ:	Middlesbrough
ONS code:	00EC
Demographics
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density	Ranked 131st 137,600 2,554 / km²
Ethnicity:	93.7% White 4.6% S.Asian
Politics
Middlesbrough Council http://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Mayor & Cabinet
Mayor:	Ray Mallon (Independent)
MPs:	Stuart Bell, Ashok Kumar

Middlesbrough is a unitary authority and borough in North Yorkshire, England. It is based on the town of Middlesbrough, which is sometimes considered to spread outside the borough boundaries into the neighbouring borough of Redcar and Cleveland; the borough extends southwards to a semi-rural area. Whilst part of North Yorkshire for ceremonial purposes it is part of North East England for regional government purposes.

It had a resident population in 2001 of 134,855. A 2005 mid-year estimate suggest the Borough to have a population of 147,823 and rising. The district was formed on April 1, 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, from part of the former county borough of Teesside, along with the parish of Nunthorpe from the Stokesley Rural District. It was a district of the new county of Cleveland from April 1, 1974, until 1996, when Cleveland was abolished under the Banham Review, and Middlesbrough became a unitary authority.

The borough borders Stockton-on-Tees to the west, Redcar and Cleveland to the east and the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire to the south.

Unlike most English districts, its council is led by a directly-elected mayor, currently Ray Mallon. Mr. Mallon was previously a senior officer in Cleveland Police, and was noted for a zero-tolerance approach to crime, adopted from the New York system, during his time as head of Middlesbrough's CID.

The borough has 23 council wards. Middlesbrough is mostly unparished, with Nunthorpe and Stainton and Thornton being the only parishes. Areas within the borough, other than central Middlesbrough, are

[edit] Economy

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of South Teesside at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.