A LABOUR group of councillors is hoping to place its stamp on the future of a town - by suggesting the word Yorkshire be dropped from its postal address.

Members of Redcar and Cleveland Council will this week be asked to support the motion that Yorkshire be dropped from the address once and for all.

Council leader George Dunning said it would be a "return to common sense" and would enable the council to commit to playing a full and constructive role in the economic future of the Tees Valley.

At Thursday's full council meeting, members will be asked to back the motion that Redcar and Cleveland be used on all Redcar addresses, instead.

"It is no secret that a small, but highly vocal, back to Yorkshire group badgered the previous administration into the change in the postal address," said Coun Dunning.

"In a sense, it might seem a fairly trivial thing, but there is no doubt that it did help to create a very unhelpful isolationist image of the borough as far as the rest of the Tees Valley, and indeed the whole region, was concerned.

"It is in the interests of everyone living and working in the borough that we are recognised as enthusiastic and committed supporters, willing to play our full part in driving forward the economic regeneration of the area."

And Brotton Labour Councillor Richard Rudland, who has tabled the motion, said: "This is all about looking forward and not trying to re-invent the past."

But Liberal Democrat Councillor Chris Abbott said he would not be supporting the motion.

Besides, anything else, he said it would cause problems for the Royal Mail's automated sorting process.

"We use it because Yorkshire is our county," he said.