A family from Rowlands Gill, Gateshead have started to receive cards ahead of his 21st birthday. Lisa Skeen, 44 and Bethany Dodgson, 23 are hoping to receive cards from people around the UK and the world, to give Dominic Skeen a birthday he won’t forget on July 10. Dominic, who has a […]
Seaham Coasts coach David Harding and compere Mal Robinson are to host a fundraising event for local youth football clubs, with a special guest appearance from Mark Clattenburg, one of Premier League’s top referees. The event, which will be held at Sunderland Masonic on March 2nd, will hope to raise […]
A new music festival for the UK’s emerging artists is set to hit the North East this April. Hit The North, created by SSD Concerts, will see hundreds of music acts in 14 venues across Newcastle perform on the weekend of April 27-29. SSD Concerts expressed their importance […]
A North East footballer will be swapping her goalkeeper gloves for a three month spell in Ghana later this year. Helen Alderson, 27, will be jetting off to the African nation in March to undertake work surrounding human rights in rural areas after being inspired by a friend who did […]
Red wine has already been associated with blood thinning properties in the past, but now, it may also make you smarter. A study by Tim Eschle at Northumbria University last year was conducted to find out if a component in wine named Resveratrol had positive effects on the brain and […]
A pro-Europe campaign group are hosting a rally on March 4 in Newcastle city centre to campaign against the decision to leave the EU. The event will begin outside the City Pool at 12.30pm and will continue through Northumberland Street to Greys Monument. Campaigner, James Sheerin, helped to organise the […]
During February half term, between 18th-26th, visitors can experience a history lesson of a children’s food strike here in the North East remembering 100 years of the strike. Beamish Museum in Stanley, County Durham, is known as an open air museum where visitors can come and see how a victorian […]
A Sunderland aid worker is fasting for a minimum of 8 hours on Sunday, February 26, in order to raise awareness and funds of the current situation in Yemen. According to Taz Maqsood and his colleagues, who have contact with a doctor currently in Yemen, Dr Ashwaq Muharram, all aid […]
The Sunderland Football Club mascots have been entertaining families during half term. The Club’s Samson and Delilah visited The Bridges Shopping Centre on Friday as part of a city-wide tour. Selina Deeney, Deputy Marketing Manager at Sunderland AFC, said: “We are out all of half-term week in Sunderland with Samson […]
A campaign has been launched to end funeral poverty in the UK after costs have doubled in the last 10 years. Fair Funerals is the first national campaign to tackle the problem, which aims to influence funeral directors to set out clear prices on their website to help people with […]