Sunderland City Council proposed plans which could see development in the pitches of the Southern Area Playing Fields in Washington turned into a housing estate. The Council’s Core Strategy and Development Plan proposed that the football pitches, off Bonemill Lane in Rickleton, could be transformed into over 200 new […]
Stockton’s biggest music festival Stockton Calling is back for the ninth year running and is once again a sell-out. The festival sees over 70 bands performing across nine venues in just one day. This year, Stockton Calling will be taking over the town on March 31. The festival features a […]
Volunteers joined in the biggest Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) Campaign on the beaches in the North East. Last month, many volunteers helped in collecting litter of from Long Sands Beach in Tynemouth during the Beach Clean from Saturday 24th to Sunday 25th March 2018 to help protect surfers against sewage. […]
Friends Fest, hosted by Comedy Central, has travelled all over the UK in previous years and is now on its way to the North East this summer. From 20th-29th July guests can see a number of iconic sets from the show at Castle Farm Fields in Newcastle, including full sets […]
The Spark website is currently undergoing some exciting changes. In the meantime, SRNews have got a copy of the competition rules! 1. Competitions are open to UK residents, however certain competitions will be for residents of the North East only. Where that is the case this will be displayed/read out […]
Schools across the North East region received threatening e-mails on the morning of March 28. The malicious e-mails that were sent to schools all over the country, warn schools that students will be the target of attacks later today. Durham Constabulary, however, confirm that the email threats are not considered […]
Lady Elsie Robson and her son Mark welcomed guests and hard-working fundraisers to the Copthorne Hotel in Newcastle on Sunday, including World Cup hero Jack Carlton, actor Stephen Thompkinson and Lindisfarne legend Ray Laidlaw. Incredibly, the foundation Sir Bobby launched in 2008 to raise £500,000 has gone on to […]
Starbucks has been the first UK coffee chain to trial the ‘latte levy’ – a 5p charge on non-recyclable takeaway coffee cups. The aim is to reduce the overuse and waste of 2.5billion disposable cups every year. During the three-month trial, in 35 selected London branches, customers buying hot drinks […]
One half of television’s most famous duo will find himself in an unusual position next Saturday – by himself. Declan Donnelly will present Saturday Night Takeaway on his own for the rest of this series, ITV has confirmed. This Saturday’s show was cancelled after the other half of the duo, Ant McPartlin, was arrested and […]
At 10 years old, William Kellibrew witnessed the horrific murder of his mother and brother in their family home. Shocked and frightened, he was left to pick up the pieces and try to move on with his life. But how do you ever come to terms with such a tragic […]