ELECTIONS will be held on May 6 to choose the next Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Northumbria. The four candidates who are standing for the role are Duncan Crute (Conservative), Julian Kilburn (Independent), Peter Maughan (Liberal Democrat), and Kim McGuinness (Labour) who has been PCC since 2019.
STAFF at a Wearside bank set for closure have been praised by police for saving an elderly customer from losing thousands of pounds to scammers. Cashiers at Barclays’ Houghton-le-Spring branch raised the alarm after one of their regular customers tried to withdraw £2,500 – claiming the money was to […]
A PETITION has been launched to save a Houghton-le-Spring bank set for closure. Donna Thomas, who is secretary of the town’s residents group, set up the petition after Barclays announced it would be closing its Newbottle Street branch on July 2. Among its reasons for closing the store, the banking […]
The first case of COVID-19 in Sunderland was confirmed a year ago today. The Sunderland resident who tested positive for coronavirus was taken to South Tyneside District Hospital for treatment. At the time just over 320 cases of the virus had been found in the UK. Since then, 20,986 cases […]
SUNDERLAND’S Director of Public Health has renewed calls to follow lockdown rules after the South African COVID-19 variant was found in Middlesbrough. Mapped: Where the South African variant of COVID-19 has been detected in the UK (Last updated 15/02/21) A CASE of the South African variant, which health experts […]
A CHARITY donation scheme has been launched in Sunderland to help the homeless stay warm this winter. The Take One Leave One initiative offers free clothing for the homeless and encourages members of the public to donate any unwanted coats, hats, gloves or scarves. The scheme, which sees a clothes […]
SUNDERLAND City Council Leader Graeme Miller has backed a petition launched by local MP Sharon Hodgson to reopen the Leamside Line. The petition, launched by the Washington and Sunderland West MP, calls on the Government to reopen the rail line through Washington which will help reconnect the town. […]
Search ‘US Election 2020’ to see all our coverage PRESIDENT Donald Trump has declared the US election a “major fraud on the American nation” in a provocative and misleading late-night election speech. In a press conference at the White House, he falsely claimed he was the winner and […]
Search ‘US Election 2020’ to see all our coverage IT IS still too early to predict the result of the US Election with the polls neck-and-neck. Donald Trump and Joe Biden are fighting to win 270 electoral votes needed to secure the Presidency. As it stands at the time […]
Tyne & Wear Metro trains are being cleaned using a new special disinfectant to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Each train on the system is undergoing a deep clean using the special coronavirus-killing spray, called Zoono Z-71, which kills 99.99% of germs and lasts for 30 days, reducing the risk […]