A harsh take on this as someone who often drives this road for work: it will never be “dualled to the Scots border”. Every time that the unacceptable level of road casualties hits the news as it tragically has now, the debate gets hijacked by this demand www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Preston Road: Finding a Way Forward (Part 2) 🚦🤝 What sort of place should Preston Road be? Part 2, on-site with local resident Fletcher Sowerby and local parent Prof. Alison Stenning to look at what happens when a community stops shouting and starts listening.

Preston Road: Moving Beyond the Culture Wars 🚦🪧📢💥 Five years ago, a promise was made to the 800 children who travel to school on Preston Road: we would make their route safer. We as a community failed to deliver. #PrestonRoad #Tynemouth #RoadSafety #ActiveTravel #CommunityFirst

🚦 Moving Beyond the "Culture Wars" on Our Roads It’s easy to look at streets and pick a side, but the reality of transport is more complex than a headline or a social media argument. I’m opening up a conversation about how we actually keep #Tynemouth moving safely #RoadSafety #PrestonRoad #Transport

A few words on the tragic loss last month of a local father riding his bike on Preston Road. We’re not at a point where it’s appropriate to comment on the circumstances of this collision, but it is time to get to work looking at the choices our community faces. Just awful. 😞

🌊🏄‍♀️Down at the Surfers Against Sewage Paddle Out Protest in Tynemouth today! 🏄🌊 If we want real change, we need to move at a pace that is relevant for our children. #EndSewagePollution #PaddleOutProtest #tynemouthlongsands

Tough results for Labour yesterday, but we're ready to listen, learn, and get back to work for our community. 🌹 Cllr Tom shares his thoughts on the election, the rise of Reform as the official opposition in North Tyneside, and our commitment to continue fighting for the things we stand for

Exciting progress at the Tynemouth Library site! 📚🏗️ Councillor Julie Day shares an update on the construction work currently underway. #Tynemouth #CommunityUpdate #LocalGovernment #LibraryProgress #TynemouthLibrary

Keep our wealth local. Keep our energy clean. Keep our community strong. 🐝 • Community Energy: Helping local businesses and charities set up solar projects to lower bills and protect our coast. ☀️🌬️ • Community Banking: Supporting community banking to keep our money local 🏦 @coopparty.party.coop

Pride in Place does what levelling-up never could: it puts funding and decision-making power directly in communities' hands. Vote Labour and Co-operative on 7 May for councillors who will deliver pride in your area.

There’s something genuinely satisfying about planting things (or helping get them planted) along the routes you use every day. It makes your neighbourhood feel brighter, greener, and more yours 🌱 Could we help you do something similar where you live?

Anyone else feeling kind of small right now? #Tynemouth First time since 1972 that humans have travelled outside of the Earth's orbit, a lifetime for some of us.

🚗 Your Street, Your Say: Tynemouth, Preston & Marden Traffic Speed Survey Do you feel safe crossing the road in your neighborhood? Is traffic speed a concern on your street?  👉 forms.gle/Zuc9qEJyyrT2... Julie, Tom and the local Labour & Coop team want to hear directly from you.

Great news for parents up and down the coast interested in inclusive education options: 🏫Monkseaton Middle School will now offer inclusive mainstream provision for Year 5 to Year 11, ensuring a stable and supportive learning journey for all. Hear more from Councillor Martin Murphy!📣

🚦Ever wonder why we push so hard for lower speed on our local streets? Surprised by how dramatically collisions & injuries have fallen on the coast after the changes there? It’s all about vision 👁️ The faster people drive, the narrower their field of vision becomes.

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Today Julie & the team in #Tynemouth join women around the world to mark International Women's Day a moment to celebrate progress, harness the power of collective action, and stand in solidarity with women and girls everywhere. 💜🌍✨ #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026

Not out for consultation yet, but plans are in public circulation, here’s our take on this great project. Junction is to be remodelled to follow the original 18th Century shape of the top of Tynemouth Green. Work will make it dramatically easier to cross the street tynemouth.news/index.php/20...

Some great news on investment for Sand Park on Marden Estate, with funding for a new accessible roundabout approved. 🎉🎉👏🏻👏🏻🎊 Here’s Julie to chat you through what’s on its way & some of the other things we’re doing locally. Got some ideas on how to improve your area? Let us know & we’ll do our best.

In this instance something happened to the driver. But in a photo nothing shows up more despite all our campaigning this section of Preston Road is a mess. The 1960s fencing (safety hazard), the yellow paint, excess speeds. The kids in the background deserve better, they’ve told us they want better

Shocking scenes on Preston Road. This section of street is systematically unsafe, a relic of the 1960s design, doesn’t belong in our borough today. Guardrail crush risk, excess speed, & yet we’ve got Tory Cllrs over the road who think yellow paint on the road will solve anything 🤯🤷🏼 Enough is enough

Fletcher from the Preston team has been looking into the Housing Developer Roadworks on Beach Road & Preston Road. Here’s what’s going on 👇🏻

With funding allocated for new grit bins & a very light dusting of snow overnight, we are taking suggestions and also asking what else would help you clear a few paths near where you live or work next winter? Or do you need help? tynemouth.news/index.php/ha... Use our online form to sign up to help

hearing some v.good news declining collisions and injuries 🚑🤕 along the coast after the changes of the last few years. Just take a look at 2025 > compare with a few years ago! Each map dot means someone injured and the police attending to record information, each dot missing = someone spared

Local 📰 news 📢 - public consultation Tynemouth Station new planning application. 🚧🚧🔨🧱👷🏼‍♂️🏗️🚧🚧 Over the next few weeks we are expecting Station Developments to start a new public consultation on the idea of building houses on the derelict land between the station and Tynemouth Road.

Cllr Tom calls4 a “Mum’s and Dad’s Army” of local snow clearing volunteers to help clear footways & paths next winter ❄️💪 - doing things differently, getting a bit of community spirit going, making sure older residents aren’t cut off when snow comes 👉 Watch his speech: www.youtube.com/live/G4FRbQi...

There’s been a lot of talk the last few days, together with some sloppy journalism, about “Parking in Tynemouth” Our priorities: • Stop Dangerous Parking near our schools • Put people first in our village centre • Efficient & rational management of our streets, be it trees, parking, speeds, anything

Many thanks to the council team who showed Cllr Tom around our Solar PV array at Killingworth today. “Going Green “ isn’t just about the 🐦🦚🐝🌳it’s often about the cold hard cash 💷💻of energy & savings/revenue, as both businesses & public estate in our borough are discovering.

Tynemouth on the front page of the new National Road Safety Strategy! Do you recognise any of the people pictured? Still reading through but there’s some great stuff in there including better guidance on reducing traffic speed & a Safe Systems Approach. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Enjoy the snow, #tynemouth. Some info below on council gritting & also what you can do yourself. It will freeze overnight, we hold a very small stock of grit ourselves locally so if in the morning you spot somewhere especially hazardous ❄️🧊⚠️ please message us & will see if we can help.

Street Surgeries recommence weekend of 3rd Jan 🗓️, so let us know if you’d like us to book you in. In the meantime we’re wishing you all the best for 2026🥳 & looking forward to working with you all to continue improving our area.

Thanks to the hardworking local Santa Tracking Team at Tynemouth Priory and Castle working through the night to keep a close eye on North East airspace. NORAD has confirmed their systems & the link to Tynemouth are fully operational. Our thoughts are also with the central tracking team in Colorado.

Following worrying reports of a rise in Race based Hate Crime in the Northumbria Police area we have obtained the data for North Tyneside. Thankfully following an alarming rise in offences Summer 2024, levels have come back down. tynemouth.news/index.php/20...

Nigel Never Knew Nathan, Russians, you say?” (A Cautionary Tale of Selective Memory) Old Nigel stood puffed by the Channel’s blue air, With a pint and a grin and a well-practised stare. “Now don’t point your fingers, don’t make such a fuss— I barely recall who this Nathan chap was!”

Disappointing to hear & well done to Susan for calling this out. Would suggest that some politicians in our borough think long & hard about the language that they are using & the impact this has on our residents. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

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 👏🏼👏🏼🏊‍♂️🏄‍♀️🌊

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

Tynemouth News 📰 is out this week hitting doorsteps across #tynemouth, Marden & Preston. Can’t wait for the print edition? 🤗 Well check it out online at: tynemouth.news

Article by Cllr Tom on how we’re coming up with ways of engaging more with secondary schools on road safety. Fixing problems takes time but a good starting point is understanding where pupils feel less safe in their journey to school. www.transportxtra.com/publications...

Our MP Alan Campbell has raised our local concerns on water quality with the Environment Secretary. Here’s what he had to say. @sascampaigns.bsky.social

By popular demand, the Whitley King Charles £Fiver

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

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

Labour is lifting children in Tynemouth Constituency out of poverty by expanding access to free school meals. Alongside free breakfast clubs, cheaper uniform costs and government-funded childcare, Labour is putting money in parents’ pockets and giving 🚸 the best start in life.

The Thorny subject of Buckthorn at Longsands is due to be tackled for the first time in June after local resident Gordon highlighted the problem. What do you think? 🤔 🌳⚠️🏴‍☠️

New deal on EU food exports is good news for Fishermen landing Langoustines 🦐 🦐🦐at Shields. Main market Shields fishermen target for langoustines = 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹, trade was 🔨 by Brexit but should now be easier. It’s a long road back from the chaos of 2016-19, this deal is important

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.