SR News’ Sophie Dishman speaks to Kieron Brady on Alcohol Awareness Week which runs from November 14 to November 20. “I’ll be an alcoholic to the day I die,” says Kieron Brady as he sits in a blank white room at the University of Sunderland, a place where he once volunteered […]
Sunderland community radio station Spark FM has launched a campaign called Global Sunderland to support refugees and immigrants following an increase in reported public xenophobia abuse following Brexit. Jay Sykes and Caroline Mitchell, alongside the University of Sunderland’s Chaplin, Chris Howson, have been working closely with community radio station Spark […]
Sunderland students are rallying against university changes by going down to London with Northumbria Students Union. They will be demonstrating against the new Higher Education Bill that is to be introduced to Parliament. On November 19, the Student’s Union in Sunderland and Northumbria are going to London for the ‘United […]
One of Sunderland’s First World War heroes was honoured with a Blue Plaque outside his birth home. Wing Commander Claude Alword Ridley MC DSO was a Royal Fusilier attached to the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) in 1914. He retired from the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1928. However, at the outbreak […]
Hundreds of Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors, Policemen and civilians came together on Sunday November 13 to honour those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. The Remembrance Parade and Service marks not just those who fell in the First World War, but those who fell in the defence of the Nation. The Parade marched off from the Civic […]
Sunderland Illuminations are over for another year and more than 200,000 people from across the country have been to see the attraction – but some people weren’t so impressed. Last year the event brought in more than 300,000 visitors. This year there was a difference in turnout and opinion of […]
A 25-year-old man was driving near St John’s Church when two men suddenly appeared in the road. Police were called following the incident on Ashbrooke Road in Sunderland at approximately 6.10pm on Monday, November 14. The motorist got out of his car and the other men asked for his car keys which […]
A new Alzheimer’s drug has recently undergone clinical trials and has successfully reduced a plaque-like substance known to be present in the brains of patients who suffer from the disease. A pharmaceutical research company, known as Merck, has produced and tested a new drug called Verubecestat. A trial designed to […]
The North East’s largest vegan festival is swarming its way back to Sunderland for the third time this year. NEVFest will take place at the Stadium of Light on Sunday November 20 and is the seventh of its kind since it was founded in 2013. Over 110 individual stalls will showcase the […]
At 11am on November 11, maroons were fired in Mowbray Park to mark the beginning and end of the two minute silence. At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the guns fell silent bringing the Great War to an end. 18,000 men from […]