Briefly walked through on my way into Metrocentre after parking over that way. Not enough there to interest me in terms of vehicles with the same old faces gathering in the same old cliques as I passed. Was tempted by a trip up to Tanfield and Beamish but, after reading about the experience of Charles41, I'm glad I didn't bother. On my way back to the car, I witnessed a parade of GNE vehicles led by a short, stout female inspector with shoulder length blonde hair, ploughing through the rally site at speed, briefly stopping to aggressively remove some tape from the coned off section of the rally site. This was presumably the start of the Soccerbus operation for the day.