A NORTHUMBRIA Police dog has been praised by a top cop after helping hunt down a burglary suspect who allegedly threatened his victim with a knife. At about 8.20am on Saturday (October 3) police were alerted to a raider at a home in Ashfield Park, Whickham, Gateshead. He was […]
SR NEWS newsroom manager Paul Taylor recently got home from work with a sore throat, a headache … and a dilemma. In a week when 40 students and four of his University of Sunderland colleagues had been confirmed as Covid-positive, should he take a Covid-19 test? Here, Paul describes the […]
MORE than 750 students at Northumbria University are self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19. A spokesperson for the university, in Newcastle, said that as of Friday, it was aware of 770 students testing positive – only 78 of whom were showing symptoms of the virus. All these students, as […]
COSMETIC science student and award-winning blogger Carly Musleh has been using the knowledge she has developed during her course to offer an insight into the beauty industry – as well as picking up thousands more followers in the process. The 37-year-old, from South Shields, is well known for her YouTube […]
NEWCASTLE has now exceeded 250 cases per 100,000 in the latest Covid-19 case figures. Every council in the North East is now in the top 41 of worst hit areas, with Sunderland and South Tyneside exceeding 150 cases per 100,000. The latest figures have made the North East one of […]
A MAJOR chunk of Sunderland’s city nightlife was shut down “until further notice” today, with the blame pointed squarely at the government’s mis-firing Covid-19 communications strategy. The news came on the day a junior government minister admitted to not knowing the rules now restricting licensed venues in the […]
A GOVERNMENT minister was unable to clarify whether new restrictions banning households across the North East from meeting indoors applies to pub and restaurant gardens. Labour said ministers “don’t know what’s going on” after Gillian Keegan said she did not fully understand the new rules, some 15 hours before they […]
#The CoronaDiaries “Always something happening and nothing going on… Nobody told me there’d be days like these Strange days indeed — strange days indeed” Nobody Told Me, John Lennon. SINCE we went into lockdown to escape one virus, we’ve been infected with another. My phone is constantly pinging […]
#The CoronaDiaries I WAKE to near-silence. The usual background whoosh and hum of traffic is gone. The tweeting and chirruping of birds is the loudest sound in my world right now. The sound of nature reasserting itself, if only for this brief time before the Government lets us all […]
#The CoronaDiaries THANKS to the coronavirus, I’m probably getting fitter. I’m doing more exercise than ever before. Not being able to go to work each morning has introduced a new ritual for me and my wife. We go for a walk. A simple pleasure which normal life allows little […]