A bottle full of water from the Drummond puddle has raised £65,900 for charity on Ebay. The bids for the item ended on Saturday, January 9, and the money raised is set to go to a charity within Cumbria. The item comes after #DrummondPuddleWatch went viral last Wednesday (January 6), when about […]
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Newcastle MP Catherine McKinnell quits Labour frontbench
Newcastle MP Catherine McKinnell, who was shadow attorney general for the party, has quit the Labour frontbench. She will remain as MP for Newcastle North and return to backbench. In a letter to Jeremy Corbyn she expressed three factors that had resulted in her resignation. Ms McKinnell said: “I had my third […]
Police appeal after Newcastle woman goes missing: Have you seen her?
Police are appealing for help to locate a missing Newcastle woman. Tatiana Chessa, who is 47 and from Colby Court in Newcastle, has not been seen since leaving her home address just before 9am on January 2. Tatiana is around 5ft 6ins tall, of large build and was last seen […]
Witness appeal in Newcastle: Could you help police identify this man?
Police are appealing for help to trace a man after a public order incident in Newcastle. It happened at Uno, Sandhill, Quayside, between 5.45pm and 6pm on Friday, December 18, when a man came into the premises and became abusive to staff. Police investigating the incident have released an image […]
Nexus spends over £2million on gates and validators across Tyne and Wear Metro
Tyne and Wear Metro: Gates and Validators Create your own infographics Nexus has spent millions of pounds on gates and validators over the last five years, SR News Freedom of Information (FOI) request reveals. Figures released from Nexus, following a SR News FOI, show that a staggering £2,224,562.04 has been […]
FOI request finds how much North East councils earn from car parking penalties
By Jonathan Mackley, Rachel Cotton & Clarissa Jackson-Murphy SR News Freedom of Information request has found that North East councils have earned a total of £441,953 by issuing 19,213 car parking penalty charge notices (PCNs) in 2013 and 2014. As many as 7,264 of these fines were issued in Newcastle, making up […]
Number of public disorder offences halves in Tyne and Wear hospitals
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 […]
Figures show Wearsiders have the shortest life expectancy and ‘least healthy’ lifestyle
[googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=zBFB5cbJUil8.kbWzngW16mig&w=640&h=480] The North East of England is the ‘least healthy’ place in the UK, new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest. The region came last place in a table of English regions, showing an average life expectancy of 77.8 years. Comparing it to the rest of […]
Will Tyne and Wear councils need to cut on Christmas events this year?
Figures, revealed by SR News Freedom of Information request, show that the five council authorities in Tyne and Wear: South Tyneside, North Tyneside, Gateshead, Newcastle and Sunderland have spent a combined total of £1,584,418 over the last five years. The FOI request also revealed that South Tyneside Council tops the […]
Cold weather alert for North East: Age UK Sunderland ask older people to keep warm
The Met Office have issued a level 2 (yellow) alert for the whole of the North East for next week, from Monday to Thursday. “Issued at: 09:26 on Fri, Jan 8, 2016 Weather patterns begin to change from a west to southwesterly flow into a northwesterly flow during Tuesday 12th […]