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 […]
Fashion North‘s Barbora Bednarova reveals her two-day, 1,400-mile journey through six countries to get home to Slovakia from the University of Sunderland We all heard about Coronavirus before it hit us. I remember I was reading an article about the Chinese government wanting to build a hospital in seven days. […]
Schools, along with other means of childcare such as Childminders and Nurseries have been closed now for two weeks due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Many parents have needed to take on home teaching for their children and full-time care through the day, unless they are key workers. Alix Clark works […]
#The CoronaDiaries A University of Sunderland media graduate sends us his thoughts on the situation at home in Romania, on life under lockdown and his reflections on humanity. By Tudor Tamas THE unnatural silence of crisp spring mornings, usually dominated by the sound of loud, heavy traffic on the […]