A new free Sugar Smart app has been launched to help parents see how much sugar there is in everyday food and drinks. The free app works by scanning the barcode of products and revealing the amount of total sugar it contains in cubes and grams. The app is part […]
Sunderland City Council’s school meals service has received a national recognition for consistently providing fresh, healthy locally sourced meals. The service which provides meals in 83 primary, special and nursery schools across the city, serving meals to more than 13,000 children a day, has been awarded a Food for Life […]
#SmearForSmear raising awareness of the importance of attending #smeartests. Nominate your friends & support @JoTrust pic.twitter.com/bIT45jXeg2 — SmearForSmear.com (@SmearForSmear) January 25, 2015 Jo’s Trust has re-launched the smeared lipstick selfie campaign for North East women to be tested for cervical cancer. The selfie campaign is part of Cervical Cancer Week […]
Over three quarters of people in the North East have someone in their family with factors that put them at greater risk of heart disease. This is according to new statistics released ahead of the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) Wear it. Beat it. campaign to get the nation wearing red to fight […]
The Sunderland Armed Forces Network are offering free gym or swimming access for veterans across the city. This comes through the Sunderland Council Active Gymnasiums and Swimming Pools. The programme will run for 12 weeks and is aimed at veterans with physical disabilities or mental health problems. Veterans who are unemployed, […]
The number of top priority ambulance calls waiting over eight minutes for a response more than doubled in the North East. For the financial year 2013/14, the North East Ambulance Service hit this target reaching 76.9 per cent of Red 1 callers within eight minutes. However, in 2014/15 this dropped […]
The North East is the region with the highest number of attacks on NHS staff in the UK for the fourth time in five years, figures show. It is reported that the region made 8.48 per cent of attacks on NHS staff across the whole country. It was the Northumberland […]
Recent statistics from the Office for National Statistics show that suicide among young people between the age of 15 and 19 is at the highest in 10 years (up to 2015) in the UK. The figure was at 145 ten years ago (from 2015); five years ago (from 2015) the […]
Deaths from drug misuse are on the rise and have doubled in the past eight years in Sunderland, figures show. Recent figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that in 2006 there were 28 deaths in Sunderland due to drug misuse, in 2009 there were 40 and […]
SR News Freedom of Information request has revealed that public disorder offences have more than halved in Tyne and Wear hospitals. Public disorder offences in hospitals include swearing and verbal abuse towards staff, which has considerably decreased since 2011. The figures have shown only 26 reported incidents of public disorder […]