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St Mary's made the announcement just days after King's Church, also in Darlington, revealed it had scaled back its food bank operation following a drop in funding.

There will be no marathon at the scaled down event when it returns to the city next year but that does not mean she is not considering making it to a fifth Commonwealth Games.

Mr Coltman said the service, which is open to the public, would have to be scaled down.

He has already scaled his business from a handful of staff using the hub's hot desks to a team of around 40 working from private offices in the former hospital, as well as remotely.

Police Scotland last week scaled up its response to deliberate fires in the city, which may be connected to several blazes and gun incidents in Edinburgh.