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THIS WEEKEND

and train operations directly until 2019, when a new and different contract would begin incorporating delivery of a new train fleet during the first half of the next decade.

While the government has insisted on continued private sector involvement in the Metro, officials feel they have two years to prove what a publicly run system can do. And when we first reported that Metro was to become publicly run, we conducted a poll which asked if it should stay in public ownership.

A massive 86% said yes. Metro trains, tracks and stationsare to be handed over to public ownership as of tomorrow A suspected serial flasher exposed himself to young girls four times in just two days.

Officers believe it is the same man, thought to be around 60 years old, who is responsible.

The first incident happened in the park at Deneside, Seghill at around 3.30pm on Tuesday. A man exposed himself to a teenage girl walking home from school.

The same day, at 3.51pm, a man exposed himself to two girls on Elsdon Avenue, Seaton Delaval. On Wednesday, at 5.30pm, a man exposed himself to a teenager near to the bowling green between Collywell Bay Road and Beresford Road in Seaton Sluice.

The last indecent exposure happened in a park on Bank Top in Bedlington Station at 7.15pm on Wednesday. The man is described as wearing a red or maroon jumper or jacket and aged around 60.

Contact Northumbria Police on 101 quoting reference 767 280317.