Business
Whitley Bay Butcher Nicholsons Wins Gold for Sausage and Pie
Nicholsons on Park View won two golds and three silvers in the National Craft Butchers awards. Category champions are named on 12 and 13 October.
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Whitley Bay
Whitley Bay This Weekend: Open Quay and Joe McElderry
Free Open Quay studios in North Shields, Joe McElderry and burlesque at the Playhouse, plus Tynemouth market: times and booking links for 25 to 27 September.
Whitley Bay
Whitley Bay Christmas Bins 2026: Friday Moves to Sunday
Friday bins on Christmas Day go out on Sunday 27 December; New Year's Day bins move to Saturday 2 January. Every other day stays the same across North Tyneside.
Whitley Bay
North Tyneside Term Dates 2026/27: Half Term 26 Oct
North Tyneside schools break up Fri 23 Oct and 18 Dec 2026. King's Priory breaks a week early in October. Every holiday, plus INSET days for three big schools.
Whitley Bay
Whitley Bay Christmas Travel: Bank Holiday Moves to 28 Dec
Last time there was no Metro or bus on Christmas Day or New Year's Day. Boxing Day's bank holiday is Mon 28 Dec 2026. Free weekend parking and what's due.
Whitley Bay
Whitley Bay New Year's Eve 2026: Spanish City from £33
Spanish City's New Year's Eve: a family sitting at Trenchers from 3.30pm (from £33), a £95 1910 dinner, and a masquerade ball to 1.30am. Balances due 1 October.
Tynemouth
Tynemouth Priory Winter Opening: Weekends 10am to 4pm
Tynemouth Priory goes weekends-only from 2 November, 10am to 4pm, with extra days at New Year and February half term. Off-peak adult £7.65 booked ahead.
Wallsend
Wallsend Town Centre: £6m Plans Open for Views to 8 Nov
A new Forum Square, a segregated West Street cycleway and new High Street crossings: have your say on Wallsend's £6m street plans by 8 November.
Whitley Bay
North Tyneside 10K 2027: Entries Closed, Race on 28 March
North Tyneside 10K 2027 entries have closed, nearly five months early. The only way in now is an official transfer before 26 February. Race day: Sunday 28 March.
Whitley Bay
Whitley Bay New Companies: Toy Shop and Takeaway Among 14
14 companies registered in Whitley Bay from 5 to 24 September: a restaurant, a takeaway, a café, a toy retailer and an event caterer. Plus one court petition.
Local Info
Whitley Bay Roadworks: Sandringham Drive Shut, Metro Back
Sandringham Drive and Beach Avenue Lane are shut for up to 12 days, Metro is running again to Monkseaton, and a Coast Road slip road closes from 26 October.
Wallsend
Silverdale School Wallsend May Move to Forest Hall Site
North Tyneside is consulting until midnight on 25 October on moving Silverdale School's primary pupils from the Langdale Centre to Delaval Road, Forest Hall.
Whitley Bay
Creedence Clearwater Review returns to Whitley Bay, 24 Oct
The CCR tribute band plays Playhouse Whitley Bay on Saturday 24 October, 7.30pm to 9.50pm, a year after its first date there. Running times, rules and booking.
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.
What is on the site
- News: the record, including planning applications along the coast and across the borough.
- Local Info: bin collection days, parking, council tax bands, house prices, Metro times and fares, roadworks and planning news.
- What’s On: things to do in Whitley Bay, and what is happening between St Mary’s Lighthouse and the Priory this week.
Every fact carries a link to its source, so you can check it for yourself.