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Reasons to visit Hartlepool | Live concerts | Cashless society | Art restoration | Boris Johnson’s repainted planeYou paint a gloomy picture of Hartlepool (Britain beyond lockdown: can we level up?, 23 June). But there are many reasons to visit: HMS Trincomalee in the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the beach at Seaton Carew, the birdlife, St Hilda’s church and the Andy Capp statue. Like so many north-east towns, it needs help, but it has a lot to offer visitors, who might bring a