An app, which allows people to access library services 24/7, is being launched by Sunderland libraries ahead of National Libraries Day next week. Its launch is part of the celebrations for this year’s National Libraries Day on February 6. The Sunderland Libraries app is designed to help people use libraries […]
ITV News presenter Alastair Stewart spoke to SR News ahead of a talk he gave at the University of Sunderland yesterday (January 26). The newscaster talked to students, graduates and Wearsiders about the pressures facing an independent media at the University Murray Library. He also gave advice to aspiring journalists […]
Police are appealing for information after an indecent exposure incident in Sunderland. At 6.55pm yesterday (January 26), police were informed a man had gone into the back garden of a property in Nesburn Road in the Barnes Park area of the city. The man made off when the occupant of […]
A group of Sunderland students will be showing off their language skills as part of the city’s first major celebrations to welcome the Year of the Monkey. The group, from the Mandarin Club at St Anthony’s RC School, will perform a number of traditional songs in Chinese. For the first time, […]
A section of Timber Beach Road in Sunderland is to close next week. It will close from Monday (February 1), as part of preparation works for Sunderland’s new bridge. However, the other three access points into Sunderland Enterprise Park will remain open. Timber Beach Road, which is off the A1231 […]
Sunderland Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) saved 93 people from the sea last year, according to rescue statistics issued today. They had 70 launches of their volunteer lifeboat crews and lifeguards in 2015. Andrew Ashton, RNLI divisional operations manager in the north of England, said: “The RNLI’s volunteer lifeboat crews […]
A community arts project has transformed an underpass into a gateway to nature. In response to concerns by Wearsiders about being uneasy walking through the subway under the Barnes Roundabout (behind Hipsburn Drive), Sunderland City Council’s West Area Committee funded a community arts project which has painted the walls and […]
Sunderland’s largest wedding fair, The Wedding Wonder Show, returns to the Stadium of Light from noon until 3pm on Sunday February 7. Guests at the event, which has a Valentine’s Day theme, will have the chance to meet more than 100 exhibitors from across the North East, including top suppliers […]
Police have arrested two people in connection with the death of a man in North Shields. At 3:17am this morning (Mon Jan 25), the police received a report from the ambulance service that a man had been stabbed outside of an address in West Avenue. A 24-year-old man was taken […]
Sunderland’s Mowbray park was the hub of over 100 crimes in 2015, new figures have shown. Figures from the Police.uk website show that just this one park and its surrounding areas (Burdon Road, Borough Road, Toward Road and Park Road) have been the hub of over 100 crimes in 2015. […]