A woman from Darlington has created a petition for the new Wear Crossing in Pallion to be renamed as Bradley Lowery Bridge. Sarah Jane Wilkinson got the idea after watching the five-year-old youngster on television and with his “best friend” Sunderland AFC star Jermain Defoe. Bradley, who is from Blackhall in […]
A moving film, On the Edge, depicting an interaction between two strangers on a cliff edge is due to be shown at Sunderland Shorts Film Festival on the 5th May 2017. A suicide prevention workshop, organised in collaboration with Time To Change will also take place alongside the showing […]
A Newcastle housing union is encouraging the region’s vulnerable adults to vote in the 2017 general election. The ACORN group support individuals and campaign for renters in the UK. They group knew they had to help vulnerable North East adults to register to vote when Theresa May announced that a […]
A London Metropolitan University student has travelled back home to the North East to experience homelessness for a documentary. Appropriately named, Tyne Elizabeth Stewart, originally from a small town in Northumberland, left the cosmopolitan life of the UK’s capital to sleep in the city centre of Newcastle for three nights to gain an […]
A Sunderland dad has powered through his fifth London Marathon to raise awareness of his daughter’s coeliac condition. Chris Collier ran the 26.2 mile course in under three and a half hours for Coeliac UK last weekend as his seven year old daughter, Abigail was diagnosed with a coeliac disease two years […]
A Bradley Lowery banner designed by a team of event organisers is heading to the Stadium of Light for Sunderland AFC stars to sign. Darren Powell, Andrew Sharp and Neil Birkinshaw are holding a charity football match at Ossett Town football ground in Wakefield on May 14 to raise money for the […]
A North East comedian will be performing at Newcastle University for their Disability Awareness Week. Lee Ridley, also known as Lost Voice Guy on stage, will be doing a stand-up comedy gig tonight (April 25) from 6pm til 8pm at the university’s union to raise awareness of neurodiversity. Mr Ridley performs with […]
A recent Freedom of Information request reveals that 211 police officers in the North East took sick leave due to mental health issues. 109 of these were due to stress, 46 due to depression, 45 due to anxiety and 11 sought help for post-traumatic stress. Dr Jonathan Slade, from NHS England […]
A woman from Wallsend has tackled the gruelling London Marathon in just over six hours after losing both her mother and sister to breast cancer. Jan Casson ran the 26.2 mile course in the UK capital wearing a bright pink bra and tutu embroiled with hearts and the names of […]
A petition to rename Sunderland AFC’s Stadium of Light East stand to the Bradley Lowery stand has been signed by more than 2,600 supporters. The petition was set up by army officer and Sunderland AFC fan Chris Collier. Mr Collier, from Sunderland, said: “I am proud to have such an […]