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Lloyds at Royal Chambers, High Street East, Wallsend, shuts for good on 3 November, cash machine included. Where the bank sends customers for cash and help.
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North Tyneside
Apprenticeship Talent Pool: 1,500 More Starts by 2029
Approved on 27 October: young people in North Tyneside who miss out on an apprenticeship will be matched to the next one under a North East pilot worth up to £10m.
North Tyneside
Women's Intensive Supervision Court Sits in North Tyneside
A new court for women who offend sat at North Tyneside Magistrates' Court on 14 October, pairing tagging with addiction and trauma support. How it works.
Monkseaton
Monkseaton Roadworks: Road Closures and Traffic Orders Near Monkseaton
Monkseaton roadworks: Land At Murton Extending From Earsdon (A186) To New York Road/Rake Lane (A191) And Shiremoor To Monkseaton (notice of 15 Oct) and...
North Shields
North Shields Roadworks: Road Closures and Traffic Orders Near North Shields
North Shields roadworks: Howard Street (now, until 12 Apr) and every other traffic order within 3 km, checked each morning with the council's notice linked.
Tynemouth
Tynemouth Roadworks: Road Closures and Traffic Orders Near Tynemouth
Tynemouth roadworks: Town Hall (from 9 Nov) and every other traffic order within 3 km, checked each morning with the council's notice linked.
Wallsend
Wallsend Roadworks: Road Closures and Traffic Orders Near Wallsend
Wallsend roadworks: Charlotte Street Lane (from 3 Nov) and every other traffic order within 3 km, checked each morning with the council's notice linked.
Monkseaton
Monkseaton Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
Monkseaton weather today: drizzle, 11°C by day and 6°C overnight, with a 65% chance of rain and winds up to 10 mph. Seven-day forecast, updated every morning.
North Shields
North Shields Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
North Shields weather today: heavy drizzle, 11°C by day and 6°C overnight, with a 65% chance of rain and winds up to 10 mph.
Tynemouth
Tynemouth Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
Tynemouth weather today: drizzle, 11°C by day and 7°C overnight, with a 65% chance of rain and winds up to 11 mph. Seven-day forecast, updated every morning.
Wallsend
Wallsend Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
Wallsend weather today: light drizzle, 11°C by day and 6°C overnight, with a 65% chance of rain and winds up to 9 mph.
Tynemouth
Tynemouth Station Homes: 46 Planned, None of Them Affordable
Amethyst Homes wants to build 46 homes on the old platforms south of Tynemouth Station, with no affordable housing. Comments can go in until 12 November.
Books
Rob Walton's Little Things and Big Things: Out 20 Nov
Whitley Bay writer Rob Walton's new book of poems for children is on pre-order at £8, with paperbacks delivered from 20 November. Here is what is inside it.
The Metro loop is the spine of this borough. It runs out along the coast through Whitley Bay, Monkseaton, Cullercoats and Tynemouth, down to North Shields and the Fish Quay, then back through Wallsend and Longbenton, with Shiremoor, Backworth, Earsdon and Killingworth inland of it. Whitley Bay and Tynemouth are where we start, and we cover the rest of North Tyneside with them.
North Tyneside Council, run by a directly elected mayor from its offices at Cobalt Park, decides the things that shape a week here: planning on the seafront and in the villages, parking, bins, licences, council tax. It publishes the evidence and hardly anybody reads it. We do, and we write down what it says with a link to the file.
Every fact carries a link to its source, so you can check it for yourself.