BBC Newcastle has embarked on an ambitious project to film a short musical about Metro – with the cast drawn from the people who use it every day.
Things that we everyday folk leave behind have becomes icons in a new artwork for Sunderland - North East photographer Julian Germain’s ‘Found’.
Nexus, which owns, manages and is modernising Metro, has successfully completed a complex railway bridge upgrade at Bede Metro station in South Tyneside, which will allow for quicker train services between Pelaw and South Shields.