DJ6:
Furthermore, Easter 2011 was April 8th (i.e. early and colder) while Easter 2012 was April 24th (i.e. late and warmer) - meaning people were more likely to use it to go away
errrrm, except if those people live in Tees-side? I know you Tees-siders have a bit of a thing about Geordies being different but this is surely just desperation in trying to find excuses for the sad reality that the Tees-side economy is f**ked, people have no money, there's huge unemployment, and no-one from outside the region could have the remotest reason for going there other than the few business travellers with facilities already there. It's a microcosm of the UK as a whole - we're in the doldrums till the government abandons its Thatcherite slash-and-burn obsession.
NS