After it was revealed councils could introduce fines of up to £80 for feeding seagulls food – from the classic broken up bread to pizza crusts and leftover fish and chips. The fine has been suggested due to the ever increasing number of seagulls in the area and because the […]
Get your glow stick at the ready and take part in a Saturday night like no other as Clubbercise takes over Flares dance floor on May 13. Radio Lollipop worker, Louise Sharp and fitness instructor, Melanie James are hosting a charity event like no other to raise money for the […]
A café that is ran by volunteers from the church and local community provides hot meals and the opportunity to meet new people for those hardest hit by austerity in Byker, Newcastle. The Cross Café based at St Michaels Church in Byker is open three days a week, providing healthy […]
A Sunderland hair salon has shown it’s a cut and colour above the rest after making it through to the grand final of a prestigious hairdressing competition. City centre hair salon, Frances Marshall, beat a host of other North East competitors in Leeds to win the L’Oreal Colour Trophy Star award […]
It has been announced by Buckingham Palace today (May 4) that Prince Philip will be stepping down from all public engagements in the North East and the rest of the country. Prince Philip, who is officially known as the Duke of Edinburgh, will cease to attend these engagements from autumn […]
A woman from Darlington has created a petition for the new Wear Crossing in Pallion to be renamed as Bradley Lowery Bridge. Sarah Jane Wilkinson got the idea after watching the five-year-old youngster on television and with his “best friend” Sunderland AFC star Jermain Defoe. Bradley, who is from Blackhall in […]
A moving film, On the Edge, depicting an interaction between two strangers on a cliff edge is due to be shown at Sunderland Shorts Film Festival on the 5th May 2017. A suicide prevention workshop, organised in collaboration with Time To Change will also take place alongside the showing […]
A London Metropolitan University student has travelled back home to the North East to experience homelessness for a documentary. Appropriately named, Tyne Elizabeth Stewart, originally from a small town in Northumberland, left the cosmopolitan life of the UK’s capital to sleep in the city centre of Newcastle for three nights to gain an […]
A Sunderland dad has powered through his fifth London Marathon to raise awareness of his daughter’s coeliac condition. Chris Collier ran the 26.2 mile course in under three and a half hours for Coeliac UK last weekend as his seven year old daughter, Abigail was diagnosed with a coeliac disease two years […]
A Bradley Lowery banner designed by a team of event organisers is heading to the Stadium of Light for Sunderland AFC stars to sign. Darren Powell, Andrew Sharp and Neil Birkinshaw are holding a charity football match at Ossett Town football ground in Wakefield on May 14 to raise money for the […]