- Healthcare regulator chief quits
- Toddler critically ill after crash
- Mild weather hits Centrica profits
- Scrap NHS Bill, says Royal College
- Weight loss operations up by 12%
- Charlotte Church settles hack claim
- Net immigration steady at 250,000
- GPs 'overpaid for ghost patients'
- Adoption process to be speeded up
- MEP arrested over 'fraud' claims
- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- 'Sharp drop' in degree courses
- Tube staff under attack, says RMT
- Action urged on hip fracture costs
- Clegg reveals £1bn jobs fund boost
- Tributes to 'jolly jester' Carson
- Travellers 'hit by rip-off charges'
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
- Fast-track asylum delays criticised
- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
Community
Sea cadets to launch new junior section
A NEW junior section of a sea cadets is being launched in March.
Streets and back lanes are treated as dogs’ toilets
WE have a daughter at school in Whitley Bay and consider ourselves lucky that many local children can, and indeed do, walk to and from school – one of the things that attracted us to live in this area.
Performance was magical
TYNEMOUTH Operatic Society excelled themselves at the Playhouse Whitley Bay with the magical performance of the musical Annie.
Charity event raises £1,326
WE wish to thank everyone who attended our first Valentine Extravaganza in aid of Breast Cancer Campaign, which was held at the Blue Flame Club in Benton on Saturday, February 11.
Community centre makes an appeal for donations
A COMMUNITY centre in the borough is planning a number of events in a bid to raise money to balance their finances.
Letters
Is car parking the council’s only growth industry?
I WAS annoyed to read the details of the proposals for more car parking spaces on Grand Parade, Tynemouth (News Guardian, February 16).
Bus companies and residents the victims
IF planning consent is granted for a seafront care home at Eastbourne Gardens then it is proposed to remove the bus turning circle and turn some 55 buses per day at the roundabout on Claremont Road.
Just what has changed with this planning application?
I WOULD like to thank Mr Stillaway from West Monkseaton for his letter (News Guardian, February 9) in doing the council’s job in bringing me up to date with the proposed housing development adjacent to the A192 Earsdon Road.
1 commentOur children deserve better
I AM writing regarding the article about the proposed reduction of hours of children’s clubs (News Guardian, February 9).
More needs to be done to save wildlife
THE excellent wildlife series Bees, Butterflies and Blooms currently showing on BBC2 should be a wake-up call for us all, including our council.
Nostalgia
Pictures from the Past
THE Whitley Bay and Cullercoats United Methodist Free Church opened on July 4, 1878, and occupied a site on the corner of Whitley Road and Margaret Road.
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Weather for Whitley Bay
Thursday 23 February 2012
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: 8 C to 16 C
Wind Speed: 25 mph
Wind direction: West
Tomorrow
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Temperature: 3 C to 10 C
Wind Speed: 23 mph
Wind direction: West
