Sunderland Illuminations are over for another year and more than 200,000 people from across the country have been to see the attraction – but some people weren’t so impressed. Last year the event brought in more than 300,000 visitors. This year there was a difference in turnout and opinion of […]
Five people have been arrested in early morning raids as police crack down on organised crime. Earlier this year Operation Falkland was set up to disrupt the supply of class A drugs and dismantle organised crime. The six month long investigation resulted in the arrests today. This morning warrants were carried […]
A 25-year-old man was driving near St John’s Church when two men suddenly appeared in the road. Police were called following the incident on Ashbrooke Road in Sunderland at approximately 6.10pm on Monday, November 14. The motorist got out of his car and the other men asked for his car keys which […]
A new Alzheimer’s drug has recently undergone clinical trials and has successfully reduced a plaque-like substance known to be present in the brains of patients who suffer from the disease. A pharmaceutical research company, known as Merck, has produced and tested a new drug called Verubecestat. A trial designed to […]
By Alice Hewson, Hannah Parker and Siarlot Lloyd A scientist at Northumbria University has discovered that a compound found in wine may help improve intelligence. The compound, resveratrol, is believed to have a positive impact on brain function and memory. The result of the study will be published in mid-January […]
Well known South Shields writer Tom Kelly has talked about how encouraging the National centre for the written word is for the area. The national centre for the written word opened to the public at South Shields on Saturday October 20. Part of a £100million investment on South Shields town […]
The North East’s largest vegan festival is swarming its way back to Sunderland for the third time this year. NEVFest will take place at the Stadium of Light on Sunday November 20 and is the seventh of its kind since it was founded in 2013. Over 110 individual stalls will showcase the […]
BBC’s Children in Need Rickshaw challenge came to Hartlepool via Sunderland on Saturday, 12 November. Starting in Newcastle early Saturday morning, they cycled over 51 miles to Hartlepool. Taking on the leg into Sunderland was Ross, 18, who cycled over the Queen Anne Bridge before passing his home where he pointed […]
A mum from South Tyneside wants the public sale of fireworks to be banned after her 12-year-old son was attacked. Twelve-year-old Leo Stephenson was walking home from Asda in Boldon at approximately 6.30pm with his friend, when two people wearing clown masks in a black car threw a firework at […]
At 11am on November 11, maroons were fired in Mowbray Park to mark the beginning and end of the two minute silence. At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the guns fell silent bringing the Great War to an end. 18,000 men from […]