PUPILS and staff from two other Newcastles - in Australia and South Africa - meet their counterparts on Tyneside today.

About 30 pupils and seven teachers from Sithobelumthetho Primary School, Newcastle, South Africa, are staging a performance of singing and dancing at Walker Technical College in Middle Street, Walker, this afternoon.

At the same time, more than 40 pupils and seven staff from Merewether and Lambton High Schools, Newcastle, New South Wales, will be touching down at Newcastle Airport, before forging new links at the college.