Work is being carried out to remove a diseased poplar tree which broke apart and fell on to the line.

A bus replacement service will run between South Gosforth and Shiremoor on Thursday evening.

A charity opens a "social supermarket" which it hopes will half the bills of disabled customers.

The incident forced an emergency shutdown of power, Tyne and Wear Metro operator Nexus says.

A 1.3km stretch of overhead wires will be replaced with the line closed for four days.

The mobile units were set up last month after a surge of the Delta, or so-called Indian, variant.

North Tyneside's director of public health says "crucially" there is no rise in over-50s cases.

Two surge testing sites have opened in North Tyneside amid a rise linked to the Indian variant.