Jill Colbert has been appointed by the Sunderland City Council as the new Director of Children’s Services and Chief Executive of Together for Children and is expected to take up her new post this summer. Chief Executive of Sunderland City Council Irene Lucas said: “I’m delighted Jill is joining us. […]
Day: 20 April 2018
Sunderland Journalism student shortlisted for Association of British Science Writers Award
Mariam Khattab, a University of Sunderland Journalism student, 21, has been nominated for the Best Student Science Journalist award at this year’s Association of British Science Writers awards. Ms Khattab’s story ‘Earth’s underwater sand dunes help explain Venus’ weird surface’ was published in New Scientist magazine in November 2017. It […]
VIDEO: Sunderland Scramble returns! Prepare to get muddy for a great cause
Sunderland Scramble event organized by North East Autism Society is returning on May 5 for the third year running at Herrington Country Park. The annual 5K course will be filled with a variety of obstacles such as sandbag carry, scrambling through cargo nets, climbing the giant wall of hay bales and navigating […]