RE last Sunday evening’s Tyne Tees and Border television news.

For a “local” news bulletin it had not one story about Tyneside, only one (old follow-up) story about Teesside; and the remainder was made up of several stories about Cumbria and the football. Even the football started with a line about Carlisle United.

We were assured at the time of the merger of Tyne Tees and Border that our local news would still represent the region but, based on Sunday’s bulletin, only one newsroom was working last weekend.

Is this the quality of service that we should expect from one of our national terrestrial broadcasters? Or was there no news in the Tyneside region that day?

Stephen Oliver, Ryton, Tyne and Wear.