Five more arrests have been made in connection with the A66 crash near Middlesborough. A 16-year-old boy and two men, aged 18 and 21, were arrested on suspicion of participating in an organised crime group.

Five young men - some still in their teens - driving suspiciously in the early hours of the morning, using a car believed to have cloned number plates and a police chase.

Nine men and three women have been arrested by officers investigating the events leading up to the crash on the A66 which left Pc Matthew Blades and Pc Tom Clough dead.