THE North East Art Collective (NEAC) is to hold a postcard auction between March 26 and April 19 to raise money for Newcastle West End Food Bank – the largest food bank in the UK, which featured in the film I, Daniel Blake. NEAC has asked a range of North […]
A Sunderland butchers will be raising the ‘steaks’ this week for National Butchers week. Stirks, a family run business on Wearside who are known across the North East for their quality and affordable meat packs, have revealed they will be heading back to their roots between March 12-18 to […]
NORTH East Sainsbury’s staff are voicing fears that a store management redeployment exercise may lead to job losses. The new structure will see team leader and manager posts being reduced and staff retrained for new roles. But a team leader at a North East branch, who did not want to […]
THE old Grand Electric cinema in Ryhope, Sunderland is to be taken brick-by-brick to its new home in the 1950s Town at Beamish Open-Air Museum in County Durham. Jacki Winstanley, Beamish Museum’s marketing officer, said: “We looked at a number of cinemas around the region. The Grand Electric in Ryhope […]
The famous Teesside chicken parmo made an appearance on MasterChef on Thursday night. Anthony O’Shaughnessy, 26, served the parmo for his second round dish on the show. The ambulance call operator from Gateshead, said of his risky choice: “When I had the opportunity to design a two-course meal, I just […]
There were a number of events and activities throughout the city to celebrate International Women’s Day as students came together to celebrate feminism. The University of Sunderland hosted a #Vote100 event which involved four feminist speakers looking back at the suffragette movement and how it compares with feminism today. Speakers […]
People’s struggle to maintain basic cleanliness and hygiene in the face of austerity has prompted a University of Sunderland student to take action. Having worked with the homeless on foodbanks, 20-year-old Lauren Robinson has come up with the idea of creating a ‘Beauty Bank’ offering toiletries, sanitary towels, and basic […]
Just a week away before St. Patrick’s Day and Newcastle will be thriving with Irish festivities and celebrations in the heart of the city centre. Newcastle’s Times Square, famous for hosting Oktoberfest and seeing epic bands play Live from Times Square gigs is the main location for the first ever […]
We have gone around the Univeristy of Sunderland and found some students and staff who are celebrating International Women’s Day. Check out our slideshow below:
Sunderland student, Georgina Percival, managed to raise money for the Cardiac Risk in the Young charity (CRY) as part of a university project. Georgina, a final-year Music student at the University of Sunderland, raised more than £360 in one month for CRY, while performing a gig. The donations were received […]