DOMINIC Cummings, the Prime Minister’s controversial senior adviser whose infamous lockdown drive to the North East caused fury, is to leave his role at Downing Street by the end of the year. Calls for Mr Cummings to resign go back to the trip he made during the UK’s first […]
Day: 13 November 2020
World Kindness Day 2020: 10 ways you can brighten up someone’s day!
TODAY is World Kindness Day, and what better way to celebrate than by putting a smile on other people’s faces and making their day? Sam Boal has a few ideas… IT’S unfortunate that this year World Kindness Day has fallen on Friday 13 – but we wouldn’t expect anything less […]
Cards For Good Causes to set up click and collect service in Sunderland
THE UK’s largest charity Christmas card retailer, Cards For Good Causes (CFGC), is planning on providing a click and collect customer service in Sunderland this year. CFGC was originally running a shop inside the Bridges, but had to close due to the second national lockdown. It had already set […]
Hays Travel founder collapses and dies at head office
JOHN Hays, the founder of Hays Travel, has died. JOHN Hays, who started the travel firm in 1980, collapsed and died today while working at its head office in Sunderland. His wife, Irene Hays, co-owned the business. The pair were praised in October 2019 when they saved the jobs of […]
Eating disorder helpline calls double under lockdown, says charity
Coronavirus may be triggering a hidden epidemic of eating disorders – with the number of sufferers calling a national helpline almost doubling since March. A NATIONAL eating disorder charity says the stress, anxiety and isolation of coronavirus lockdowns has doubled the number of calls for help it has received since […]
Yorkshire Ripper, Britain’s most notorious killer of 20th century, dies at 74
THE Yorkshire Ripper, Britain’s most notorious killer of the 20th century, has died in hospital aged 74 after refusing treatment for Covid-19. PETER Sutcliffe was serving a whole-life tariff for murdering 13 women across Yorkshire and the North West between 1975 and 1980 and had brutally attacked at least seven […]