'Majority' of evacuated residents in new homes

FLOOD-HIT TENANTS MOVE OUT OF HOTELS

- By AUSTEN SHAKESPEARE

THE “vast majority” of residents from a dilapidated Gateshead town centre high-rise have now been moved on from hotels, the council says.

The move comes two months after residents were initially evacuated from Priory Court, on Hopper Street, in early June.

Although the local authority would not disclose the precise number of residents who had moved on, and the number that remain, it is understood that 30 households were taken from Priory court after the evacuation call was issued.