Nine of our front pages show how Covid changed South Tyneside over the past year

It’s been a year since the first Covid lockdown began in the UK.

And South Tyneside, like the rest of the country, has been in restrictions of one kind or another ever since.

Here are nine front-page stories summarising the unprecedented times we’ve lived through.

5. 'Delay has cost lives'

From November 2. South Shields MP Emma Lewell-Buck criticised the Government for its delay in bringing in the second lockdown. Photo: JPIMedia

From November 3 - residents were asked to stick to the rules. Photo: JPIMedia

From November 5. Pub bosses said they wouldn't benefit from offering alcohol take-outs. Photo: JPIMedia

From November 11. It was claimed that mass testing would be the way out of the crisis. Photo: JPIMedia