Tom is at Labour Conference today, so of course is taking a swim with @sascampaigns.bsky.social Against Sewage, great to chat to other coastal Cllrs & MPs about this vital issue 👏🏼👏🏼🏊‍♂️🏄‍♀️🌊

This is patriotism. 🇬🇧 This is pride. This is unity. This is a city and a region saying loud and clear- no to racism and no to a far right agenda seeking to divide us. So much love for our place and our people today. Thank you to everyone who came out and showed who we are.❤️

Great to see #Tynemouth residents today at Monument, out saying loud & clear that Newcastle & the North East stand united against extremism & racism.

This article from a UK Councillor on how he is engaging with school children about road safety around their schools makes for a valuable and practical engagement guide: bsky.app/profile/tyne... @tynetom.bsky.social

RIP 🎶🎶Ron Carrol #legend youtu.be/29tjEX-5Pcs?...

Me in Local Transport Today talking about engaging secondary schools 👇🏼

This is Britain? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nigel Farage and the UK Reform Party? Really UK? REALLY? Seriously, what the hell? Have you learned nothing from the United States dumpster fire incompetent Nazi corrupt clown show? Or even just from your own Brexit disaster? You really want to look at ALL that and say “we can do even worse?

First article written with my “Councillor Tom” hat on, for @transportxtra.bsky.social . Maybe I’m being unfair in calling the DfT’s pace of regulatory change ‘Glacial’ 😉 www.transportxtra.com/publications...

Bumped into Sheila & @revchips.bsky.social out for a jaunt Saturday & then there they are on Look North this morning!

Sevilla / Seville : walkable dense city centre which comes alive at night this time of year ☀️🥵. Blends old & new with street details that just beg to be copied back home.

We think the #TynemouthTenner is definitely the way to go. www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...

A newspaper article about a small residential development in Jesmond. The comments 🤦🏼‍♂️😱 mostly from a small group of reform activists. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Hja...

So there’s a Reform Cllr elected & a 5g mast on fire in Whitley Bay? Some sort of celebration?

For tonight only we’ve joined the @cyclehoop.bsky.social #discobike collective - York

Hot off the press, joint statement on 🚶 🚶‍♂️🛴🦽🚲🚴‍♀️ from the regional mayors including @kimmcguinness.bsky.social

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So @cyclehoop.bsky.social are you bringing the 🔈🔊🔉🎶🚲🚲🚲 to York next week? cyclehoop.com/discobikes/

The big opportunity here is a town planning exercise covering the full 13km of this new line. Going by current performance I think Sunderland will get this. The city is thinking of Urbanism in a way it wasn’t a few years ago. www.nexus.org.uk/news/item/me... Metro to Washington

We’ve completed commissioning of what we think are the first real time junction turning counts in the North East. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year a set of sensors around the Corner House Junction are enumerating vehicle turning movements for Newcastle Council

Boots, boots, 🥾 open.spotify.com/track/2GY7JZ...

That GP of mine in Whitley Bay #DrKelson is ace, great with the kids, goes a bit heavy on the fake tan & getting injections by blowpipe takes some getting used to but 10/10 definitely recommend 👍🏻🩺🧑‍🦲

Watching #Threads on IPlayer. Feels topical 😬

Our superhuman bin & beach crews out clearing up after the first day of el scorchio ☀️🌞 We’ve been out also helping get them get sorted around some of the cabling for events on King Eddies. It’s going to be a long day for the teams so say hello if you bump into them 👏🏼👏🏼

We were at the @sascampaigns.bsky.social 🌊🏄🏄‍♀️ 🏊 Paddle Out Protest at Longsands in May & promised to put people’s concerns about 💩 outfall discharges into The Tyne to Alan our MP . So here’s the changes that are happening to force the 💧 Companies to clean up their act

This week Cllr Tom Bailey joined The @coopparty.party.coop alongside @teamlabouruk.bsky.social becoming a "Co-operative & Labour Councillor". As part of this he's talking to local schools about how we can develop Community Energy projects here in #Tynemouth

Fancy a ride, a beverage and a moan about the glacial pace of the cycleway construction? Meet 6:30 at Spanish City this Friday.

Original audio from Kier 🎶🎵🎶🎧

Happy Monday

@kimmcguinness.bsky.social @teamlabouruk.bsky.social we need work together to stop Sewage outfall into The Tyne, it’s unacceptable that heavy rain means pollution impacting our beach 🏖️ 🏊& 🏄‍♂️

Lots of fun 📹 at the beach yesterday. You can’t always do a lot about big problems as a local Cllr, best I could come up with is helping people who care, communicate with those who can.

Saturday we were at the @sascampaigns.bsky.social Paddle Out on #Tynemouth #Longsands talking to the protesters about pollution of our rivers & coast 🏖️🌊🪧📢🏄, capturing some interviews with some lovely people. Things need to Change.

Two of these big boys on the go & getting very close to harvest time 😉

The interest from the Russians is new

Loving the fact Chris has reconciled with his son, sometimes, even often, dads can be crazy egotistical mofo’s, obviously some of us more on the spectrum than others, but our kids success outlives us, it’s what we become, what we leave behind

This morning I am trying, unsuccessfully, not to think too much about politics too much, while looking at footfall & traffic around a Welsh shopping centre

Under normal circumstances I hate the whole “Two/Three 🐎🏇🎠🐪 Race 🏁” narrative in politics. The transferable vote system we had was good & getting rid of it was just another form of grifting that became normalised under the last government. I’m pretty worried right now.

With the North Tyneside Public Transport Users Group (@northeastptug.bsky.social), we asked all the mayoral candidates a series of questions about public transport and active travel. We received responses from 6 out of the 7 candidates: streetlifentyneside.org.uk/2025/04/13/p...

So the next step of tariff wars appears to be Chinese manufacturers pitching to sell direct to US consumers, knowing that the postal system isn’t geared up to collect 100%+ tariffs

For anyone interested in seeing just how amazing #Tynemouth is right now, take a look at these: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdLyJvGC/ www.instagram.com/reel/DIBU7cd... www.facebook.com/share/r/16Pt...

Obligatory #TyneBridge selfie

The Wellington is a noble creature, its pastry like hide conceals a complex anatomy

How we manage estate 🏡🛣️streets & drain💦🌳 them maybe isn’t the most interesting subject. We did our best to jazz this up, made a video. Maybe sometimes local politics should be dull? Life in local politics is a series of very, very small victories? 😉 www.facebook.com/share/r/12HS...

Interesting, in the sense of understanding the operators perspective & how it conflicts with other government guidance on how to build streets. It’s almost like we need a new version of MfS published ASAP? 🧐 www.route-one.net/bus/bus-oper...

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OK, so at 24,000 views & counting on FB this is now the highest rated politics post in North Tyneside for some time, certainly of 2025. Expect more bin related content next weekend, exclusive insights into the world of #tynemouth #bins unveiled, come with me as I explore further......