SR News’ Sophie Dishman speaks to Kieron Brady on Alcohol Awareness Week which runs from November 14 to November 20. “I’ll be an alcoholic to the day I die,” says Kieron Brady as he sits in a blank white room at the University of Sunderland, a place where he once volunteered […]
Bradley Lowery, the Blackhall youngster who has had cancer for a number of years, has been nominated for the Child of Courage award in recognition of his battle. The Best Of Wearside awards are an annual awards ceremony that celebrates the best that the people of Sunderland and the surrounding areas have to […]
Sunderland community radio station Spark FM has launched a campaign called Global Sunderland to support refugees and immigrants following an increase in reported public xenophobia abuse following Brexit. Jay Sykes and Caroline Mitchell, alongside the University of Sunderland’s Chaplin, Chris Howson, have been working closely with community radio station Spark […]
One of Sunderland’s First World War heroes was honoured with a Blue Plaque outside his birth home. Wing Commander Claude Alword Ridley MC DSO was a Royal Fusilier attached to the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) in 1914. He retired from the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1928. However, at the outbreak […]
Hundreds of Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors, Policemen and civilians came together on Sunday November 13 to honour those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. The Remembrance Parade and Service marks not just those who fell in the First World War, but those who fell in the defence of the Nation. The Parade marched off from the Civic […]
The ‘Save South Tyneside Hospital’ campaign is in full swing with protests and marches still on the horizon to prevent the possible loss of the acute services at the Hospital. Campaigners have been marching monthly since May in protest over the alliance between South Tyneside Hospital and Sunderland Royal Hospital. […]
Sunderland Illuminations are over for another year and more than 200,000 people from across the country have been to see the attraction – but some people weren’t so impressed. Last year the event brought in more than 300,000 visitors. This year there was a difference in turnout and opinion of […]
A new Alzheimer’s drug has recently undergone clinical trials and has successfully reduced a plaque-like substance known to be present in the brains of patients who suffer from the disease. A pharmaceutical research company, known as Merck, has produced and tested a new drug called Verubecestat. A trial designed to […]
A mum from South Tyneside wants the public sale of fireworks to be banned after her 12-year-old son was attacked. Twelve-year-old Leo Stephenson was walking home from Asda in Boldon at approximately 6.30pm with his friend, when two people wearing clown masks in a black car threw a firework at […]
At 11am on November 11, maroons were fired in Mowbray Park to mark the beginning and end of the two minute silence. At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the guns fell silent bringing the Great War to an end. 18,000 men from […]