A SENIOR Northumbria Police officer has praised an off-duty detective who bravely detained a suspected shoplifter accused of threatening staff with a knife. Shortly after 3pm on Saturday (November 7) police were alerted to a disturbance in Sunderland city centre. It was reported that a shopper had stolen items […]
BBC RADIO 1 DJ Jordan North – a graduate of the University of Sunderland’s award-winning Spark radio station – is the latest star to be tipped to join the upcoming series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! No official announcement had been made at the time […]
Our daily round-up of the latest coronavirus news. Disease expert: releasing safe but unproven vaccines would be ‘wrong’ Peter Horby, professor of emerging infectious diseases and global health at the University of Oxford, said potential Covid-19 treatments that have been demonstrated to be safe but not yet proven to […]
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THIS month has seen North East local authorities drop down the list of those with the highest Covid rates – but largely only because rates elsewhere have soared. At the start of October, all our local council areas, from Northumberland down to Teesside, were in the top 41 worst-affected […]
Premier League star Marcus Rashford’s demand for more free school meals for children in struggling families is threatening to turn into a serious own-goal for MPs who voted against it. The reaction to the Manchester United striker’s stance on behalf of youngsters in poverty – such as he himself experienced […]
Minister: ‘timely restrictions but no national needed Environment Secretary George Eustice said the Government has introduced tiered restrictions for local areas in a “timely way” and a national lockdown is “not appropriate”. Speaking on Times Radio this morning, he said: “In some ways we’ve always anticipated that there would be […]
FOOTBALLER Marcus Rashford’s ongoing campaign to end child food poverty has been making headlines, as the Covid-driven poverty crisis deepens. The Manchester United and England striker is calling for an extension of free school meals to 1.4million more UK children, an increase in the value of Healthy Start fresh fruit […]
THE impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the human race is at the centre of a new ‘thought-leading’ publication involving 100 of the world’s top experts, created by a University of Sunderland professor. The idea is to bring together and publish the most well-informed debate around the hopes and […]
THE North East’s very first graduate from a national pilot programme designed to ‘professionalise’ child and family support work has just completed her course at the University of Sunderland (UoS). UoS was selected as one of only eight universities in the country – and the first in the region […]