Video: Stela Taneva. Alastair Stewart OBE came to the University of Sunderland last night (Tuesday, January 26) to speak to students, staff and the general public about the media industry. Mr Stewart talked about independent media and the pressures facing it from within and without at the Murray Library, as part […]
An app, which allows people to access library services 24/7, is being launched by Sunderland libraries ahead of National Libraries Day next week. Its launch is part of the celebrations for this year’s National Libraries Day on February 6. The Sunderland Libraries app is designed to help people use libraries […]
The number of people using the Tyne and Wear Metro has reached its peak for five years, with more than 40 million passengers in 2015. Passenger numbers have grown by 4.6m– or more than 13 per cent – in the two years since major modernisation work was completed on […]
Partygoers can light up their love lives next month at St James’ Park in Newcastle. The venue – home to Newcastle United – is holding a special, ‘traffic light’ Valentine’s party. The event will be held on Friday, February 12, when those looking for love can give the green light […]
A group of Sunderland students will be showing off their language skills as part of the city’s first major celebrations to welcome the Year of the Monkey. The group, from the Mandarin Club at St Anthony’s RC School, will perform a number of traditional songs in Chinese. For the first time, […]
A section of Timber Beach Road in Sunderland is to close next week. It will close from Monday (February 1), as part of preparation works for Sunderland’s new bridge. However, the other three access points into Sunderland Enterprise Park will remain open. Timber Beach Road, which is off the A1231 […]
Police are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision in Gateshead. At 12.45pm, yesterday (January 26), a Nissan Micra collided with an elderly man as he was crossing the road at the bottom of Shibdon Bank. Police and paramedics attended the scene and the 83-year-old man was taken to the RVI hospital for […]
Sunderland Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) saved 93 people from the sea last year, according to rescue statistics issued today. They had 70 launches of their volunteer lifeboat crews and lifeguards in 2015. Andrew Ashton, RNLI divisional operations manager in the north of England, said: “The RNLI’s volunteer lifeboat crews […]
The North East is set to be awarded development funding to expand on low emission motoring in the area. As much as £5million will go to the North East, York, Dundee and Oxford, as part of £40m investment Go Ultra Low Cities has announced. The funding has been awarded to the […]
Sunderland has been placed fifth in a chart showing the top 10 ‘low wage, high welfare economies’. The findings came about from a report, called Cities Outlook 2016, completed by Centre for Cities. It looked at the average weekly salary for 63 cities within the UK. Sunderland has an average weekly […]