Covid-19 Diaries. Whitley Bay: Spanish City bustle reduced to ghostly gloom

Sue Nicholson, yet another of the colleagues fondly remembered from the Bishop Auckland office of the Darlington Evening Despatch, joins the Salut! House Party of Covid-19 diarists, painting a moving picture from Whitley Bay of the devastating effect of the virus on admired local businesses. Sue remembers happy days from Bishop (I remember her as by far the hippest character in the office) but also much more recent happy days by the coast until lockdown began ... all part of this site's series of coronavirus notes from around the world