Heart of The Pools
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The North-East in recent times has been compared to Detroit; An area built on a now defunct industry and left to wreck and ruin by its loss. This is a short documentary about how Hartlepool deals with these problems and soldiers on through a sense of collective identity born of myth.
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2014-01-01
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It can't be true, can it?
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