A North East pop up choir is set to perform at the BBC Free Thinking Festival at the Sage in Gateshead. A group of 8 singers from around the region will come together to create two bespoke vocal ‘noise pieces’ as a soundscape to spoken word. They will be working […]
Jarrow Hall, previously known as Bede’s World, is set for a grand re-launch event on April 8. The Anglo-Saxon heritage museum closed suddenly in February 2016 after Bede’s World Charitable Trust, which ran it, experienced financial difficulties. It was then taken over by Groundwork South Tyneside and Newcastle. The site reopened as Jarrow Hall […]
THE scale of the trade in counterfeit goods – and the cost to the UK’s economy – is unknown, because no national database exists, an SR News enquiry has found. We found that while details of local sales and seizures are recorded by the trading standards departments run by local authorities, […]
These social ladies meet every month to build friendships and to knit. They meet in the textiles department at the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens on the second Wednesday of every month. Established in 1978 for education, innovation and preservation: the Sunderland Knitting and Crochet Guild aspire to excel and […]
MEP Paul Brannen thinks the outcome of the EU Referendum would have been different if 16 and 17 year olds could vote. The Labour member of the European Parliament said: “I think it’s a great shame that people aged 16 and 17 didn’t have the vote.” Watch the full interview […]
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Read the latest tweets following the 2017 budget announcement from Word on Wearside reporters, key North East figures and members of the public throughout the region.
International campaign Fair-trade Fortnight returns to the North East for 2017 beginning February 27- March 12 The campaign shows support and enables a fair wage and living for farmers and workers who grow our food in developing countries such as Africa. Towns in the North-East are known for supporting Fair-trade. […]
The NHS plans to launch a clinical trial of up to 10,000 people to test a drug that could stop HIV transmission. The exercise is part of the national HIV prevention programme led by Public Health England and will take place over the next three years. NHS England will pay up […]
A petition launched to make mental health education compulsory in schools is being welcomed by Sunderland’s Mental Health Matters. The petition launched in January is hoping to make mental health education compulsory in primary and secondary schools across the UK. The petition which currently has in excess of 40,000 signatures […]