A union chief says big crowd is expected to greet Jeremy Corbyn at the Durham Miners Gala in summer. Mr Corbyn will be the first Labour leader to attend the event since Ed Miliband in 2012. Dave Hopper, the general secretary of the Durham Miners Association (DMA), predicts that Mr […]
South Tyneside’s elected Member of the UK Youth Parliament (MYP) has launched the Parliament’s new 2016 campaign to fight racism in the Borough. Emma True has joined almost 300 other elected Members of the Youth Parliament in running a year-long campaign to combat racism and religious discrimination. The campaign will […]
The North East is set to be awarded development funding to expand on low emission motoring in the area. As much as £5million will go to the North East, York, Dundee and Oxford, as part of £40m investment Go Ultra Low Cities has announced. The funding has been awarded to the […]
Sunderland has been placed fifth in a chart showing the top 10 ‘low wage, high welfare economies’. The findings came about from a report, called Cities Outlook 2016, completed by Centre for Cities. It looked at the average weekly salary for 63 cities within the UK. Sunderland has an average weekly […]
University of Sunderland Vice Chancellor Shirley Atkinson is a member of the new Social Mobility Advisory Group, it was announced yesterday. The Social Mobility Advisory Group, launched by Universities UK (UUK), will publish a report in the summer which will be given to the Minister for Universities and Science Jo Johnson MP, […]
The Press Association (PA) have listed two schools in Sunderland as “under-performing”. The Red House Academy and Academy 360 in Pennywell are among another 327 schools throughout the UK which were listed as “under-performing” by a Press Association analysis. The PA have used the Department for Education’s (DfE) methodology for calculating under-performing […]
School children in Sunderland have created a quilt to help raise awareness of Holocaust Memorial Day on next week. Pupils from Grangetown Primary have created the patchwork quilt, designing individual squares based on the memories and experiences of Jewish children who fled to Britain to escape Nazi persecution before the Second World War. The […]
SR News’ Sophie Dishman spoke to staff and a student at the University of Sunderland who are concerned about the changes. You can listen to it below. New research by the National Union of Students (NUS) shows parents are concerned the Government’s plan to scrap maintenance grants will discourage their […]
It has been announced that student grants will continue to be abolished by the Government. The debate took place today (January 19) in the House of Commons, when it was put forward by the Labour Party, as they wanted to stop the Government cutting maintenance grants. The Labour motion for the Government […]
Residents and businesses are being reminded to give their views about a new city centre gateway in Sunderland. The plans include introducing two-way traffic for all drivers approaching the Wearmouth Bridge from the north. And, a two-way system for Dame Dorothy Street with a new junction for access from and […]