A collection of news-focused and reflective journalism put together voluntarily by Journalism and Media students covering a range of personal and social topics, in an attempt to create a response to this historic moment in Britain’s history.
With ill-fitting sunglasses covering his eyes and a beige Lacoste polo shirt with holes in it to make him look like just another bloke, shapeshifter and political advisor, Dominic Cummings, emerges from his house in London (not Durham) to a crowd of journalists. “You should be social distancing”, his first […]
#CoronaDiaries Little did I know taking the car down the wrong road would lead to such a beautiful, scenic walk. On my daily exercise during the lockdown, me and my Mam have been walking through Ousbrough Wood, near High Urpeth in Durham. We found a new walking route while driving […]
A temporary 460 bed NHS Nightingale hospital in Washington has officially been opened by Ant and Dec. The Geordie duo were among a host of local celebrities including Alan Shearer, Brenda Blethyn and Si King who attended the virtual opening ceremony of the hospital at the new Innovation Centre in […]
Newcastle City Council are considering implementing safety changes to some of Newcastle’s busiest roads. More space could be designated to pedestrians and cyclists to help keep to social distancing rules, whilst also improving safety when exercising. There have been calls from environmental campaigners to add other measures to help locals […]
DURHAM County Council library services have launched online storytelling sessions for children to enjoy at home in response to the ongoing pandemic. The initiative comes after the closure of schools and the council’s libraries, where authors would normally come to narrate stories and poems for a child audience every […]
We’ve all been there in different circumstances, comfort-eating could be your way of dealing with grief or a heartbreak but during this lockdown, it’s mostly because we are bored. This lockdown has made many people to do a series of different things like in the United States of America where […]
In the north-east, the sun has been shining, people have been getting their drinks and suncream out but it’s going to rain when we leave the house, isn’t it? Back in March, weather forecasters had predicted it would be the ‘hottest ever’ spring with temperatures going up to 24 degrees […]
#The CoronaDiaries Music journalist and University of Sunderland journalism graduate and mediahub intern Jordan Davidson – who runs the SPOTLIGHTUK.co.uk music coverage website – reflects on the possible damage done to the regional music scene by the rather confused and disjointed initial government response to the coronavirus crisis. […]
#The CoronaDiaries IF YOU had said to me on the day I started working in retail that I would be a key worker someday, I would have laughed it off. Before the panic buying and the lockdown I was just a shelf stacker filling up bread and cakes every […]
St Oswald’s Hospice has welcomed a £750m government support package to help charities through the coronavirus pandemic saying that it is ‘relieved and delighted’. The Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the support package, which includes £200m for hospices, yesterday, saying: “It’s right we do everything we can to help the sector […]