A Teesside manufacturing firm has supplied specialist windows for a new prison. Polar NE creates safety windows and doors to mental health sites across Britain.

Now the almost 20-year-old firm, based in Skippers Lane Industrial Estate, Middlesbrough , has completed a "game-changing" project at a different type of setting - at HMP Stirling, in Scotland. The £85m site is the first new women’s prison in Scotland in a generation, and the project is Polar's first within the UK prison estate.

James Hill, managing director of Polar NE, said the firm's products are designed with potential mental health crises in mind and can make a difference "in an environment where safety must always come first".

He said: "We see this as a major step into a market where we know our industry-leading expertis

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