South Tyneside Council

South Tyneside Council is a unitary authority that covers the north-easternmost part of the traditional County Durham in England, and is responsible for the administrative county South Tyneside. It contains the towns of South Shields, Jarrow and Hebburn and the villages of Boldon and Whitburn; the population of the borough is 151,489 (2004 est). Like most of industrial Tyneside, South Tyneside's economy was based on coal mining and coal export (especially from Tyne Dock, long the greatest coal export dock in the world), shipbuilding and chemicals manufacture; of these, only ship repair and conversion remains as a significant industry.