Sunderland City Council has introduced smokefree scheme in all city parks across Sunderland. The scheme has the support of local people with 70 per cent approval rate of the scheme in a survey carried out by Sunderland City Council during the planning. Gillian Gibson, director of public health at Sunderland […]
An exhibition detailing children’s lives under Nazi rule is currently being displayed in Sunderland. The Children under the Nazis exhibition is curated by Dr Beate Muller of Newcastle University, in collaboration with South African Holocaust and Genocide foundation. It has been on display in three public libraries in Sunderland, Houghton […]
Sunderland City Council has approved the plan to increase council tax for almost 4 per cent to compensate for government’s funding cuts. The plan, which was first proposed in November as part of council budget planning, has been finalised at City Council Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, February 13. The plan […]
A Tyne & Wear MP has demanded government answer on the worrying decrease of teachers in North East. In a debate in House of Commons on September 10 2018, Labour MP for Houghton and Sunderland South, Bridget Phillipson, put a spotlight on what she claimed to be “growing crisis” regarding […]