By Luke Stuart, Andreea Nastase and Elizabeth Dominic History seems to repeat itself at the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, with the Then and Now exhibition becoming one of the biggest attractions. The basic premise of the free exhibition is that it is a smaller art gallery. The attraction features […]
The bridges shopping centre in Sunderland welcomed X Factor producers to set up a pop-up audition pod for this years round of auditions. Producers from the x factor have been travelling around the United Kingdom’s major cities urging people to audition. They have been to Edinburgh, Aberdeen and after Sunderland […]
Hannah Hailes, from Newcastle, has won the title of Miss Aveika in the final heat of Miss Newcastle competition this year. On Friday, March 11 in Newcastle’s brand new luxury restaurant and late bar AVEIKA, took place a beauty competition. The task of this competition was to determine the […]
Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart will reunite in Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land and appear on stage at the Newcastle Theatre Royal as part of their UK tour this summer. The duo last starred together on the UK stage in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, but will return to […]
This month girls Perrie Edwards and Jade Thirlwall return to the North East with their BFFs and group members Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jesy Nelson for their major UK arena tour, Get Weird, at the Metro Radio Arena on Thursday March 17. Little Mix announced the news after the release of […]
The Mayor of Sunderland, councillor Barry Curran, will raise the flag for Sunderland on Commonwealth Day next week. On Monday, March 14, the ceremony will take place outside the Council Chamber, where the flag will be raised promptly at 10am. More than 850 Commonwealth flags will be raised in locations throughout […]
International Women’s Day, originally International Working Women’s Day, is celebrated each year on March 8th. Worldwide women continue to excel in social, political, cultural and economic backgrounds. Each year we are nearer and nearer to the common goal of gender equality and women (and men alike) all over the globe […]
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we’ve put together a list of our top ten feistiest females in fiction. Their tenacity and determination has attracted attention across decades. Who’s your favourite? 1.Lizzie Bennet (Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen) “Elizabeth was excessively disappointed…but it was her business to be satisfied […]
A BRITs Critics’ Choice Awards nominee will be heading to Wearside to perform at a major awards ceremony. Izzy Bizu, who was one of three performers in the running for the prestigious award – whose past winners include Adele, Sam Smith and James Bay – will be joining headliners Lawson […]
An attempt to break the world record for the largest human Shamrock is taking place in Tynemouth to mark this years celebrations for St Patricks’ Day. Organisers of the annual event, Moyra’s Green Run, plan to break a Guinness World Record with aims to attract 1000 people to join in […]