A freedom of information request has revealed that arrest rates have dropped for the number of women committing violent crimes whilst drunk in Newcastle City Centre. In 2015, 77 women were arrested for committing violent crimes whilst drunk in the city centre; the figures have dropped to 26 arrests in October […]
Children struggling to cope with change are to be given transitional toys, ‘Alien Allies’, at a North East conference so that they ‘have someone by their side’ at all times. The University of Sunderland are hosting their annual one-day conference on 19 October in line with National Adoption Week which […]
Mariam Khattab, a University of Sunderland Journalism student, 21, has been nominated for the Best Student Science Journalist award at this year’s Association of British Science Writers awards. Ms Khattab’s story ‘Earth’s underwater sand dunes help explain Venus’ weird surface’ was published in New Scientist magazine in November 2017. It […]
‘A night for Bradley’ took place at The Point in Sunderland on April 29 to help raise vital funds for Bradley Lowery and his fight against neuroblastoma. The night was a fun-filled event with magicians, tombola and even the X Factor’s ‘He Knows She Knows’ as headline act. Adele Pallas, Deana […]
An event was held in Gateshead at the Sage to encourage more young girls to go for careers in male-dominated workforces. The event in January was claimed to be the largest girls STEM event that had ever been hosted and around 300 11 to 13 year old girls attended. The […]