Hartlepool is known by many as the place where a monkey was mistaken for a French spy and hanged. As some of the team behind the hit stage show War Horse launch a play based on the story, BBC News ...

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It started off as a joke, but now it seems there is a real chance a monkey could be elected mayor of Hartlepool. Nick Morrison visits a town on the verge of greatness AT the height of the Napoleonic ...

Council leaders in Hartlepool have decided a plaque must be placed on its famous monkey statue to explain its origins in case people are offended by it following the Black Lives Matter protests and ...

The legendary Hartlepool Monkey will star in the town's Christmas panto this year. Hartlepool Town Hall Theatre has announced this year's festive production, Aladdin and the Hartlepool Monkey, and ...

1 THE TRAITORS Stage Adaptation Will Debut in London in 2027 The puppeteers who brought War Horse to life and who co-designed the Lorax for the Old Vic production introduce Napoleon, the anarchic ...

Listener Sarah sends Laura to Hartlepool, where a shipwreck, a monkey in uniform and a case of mistaken identity lead to one of the UK’s strangest legends and its weirdest “trial” Show more Listener ...