SRNews spoke to members of the public in Sunderland and Newcastle to hear whether they’d rather buy fake or real goods. Fashion labels can be expensive, with some designer bags carrying a £2,000 price tag. This could make the allure of cheaper counterfeit goods almost irresistible but buying fake runs […]
The brother of a young woman who tragically lost her life to cervical cancer at the young age of 25 is taking his fight to parliament. Josh Cliff, started a campaign to reform the NHS guidelines around cervical cancer for young women, after his sister Amber died from the […]
A group of aid workers from the North East have travelled to two French cities to deliver donations from the region to refugees. The trio, made up of Taz Maqsood from Sunderland, Louisa Taylor from Blyth in Northumberland and Sabbir Islam from Whitley Bay, went to Calais and Dunkirk to hand […]
A survey has revealed the North East is the third most insecure region when viewing other people’s social media photos. The research conducted by safe.co.uk found more than a quarter (39 per cent) of people surveyed in the region feel insecure when viewing people’s photos on social media, compared to the national […]
The owner of an equestrian centre in Hetton, Durham, has been left feeling “empty” as her French Bulldog has gone missing. Susan Lincoln, who manages Whitegates Equestrian Centre near Easington Lane, has been torn apart from her 9-month-old fawn french bulldog, Libby. The dog, who is DNA tested and microchipped, […]
Using research from www.police.uk, SR News has found that the main campus at the University of Sunderland has the lowest crime rate of any university in Tyne and Wear. Sunderland had a total of 48 arrests on campus in 2016. Northumbria had the second highest crime rate with 160 arrests […]
A Sunderland lecturer is hoping to head to the Grande-Synthe refugee camp in Dunkirk, France, after it was destroyed by a blaze. Jane Elizabeth Hetherington, who works at Sunderland College, teaches English to speakers of other languages in the city. As well as this, the 57-year-old is a volunteer with Refugee Biryanis and […]
A North Tyneside choir are set to raise funds for a lasting memorial to fishermen who lost their lives at sea. Backworth Male Voice will perform in April at North Shields to support the installation of the ‘Fiddler’s Green Sculpture.’ The sculpture will be dedicated to the fishermen that left […]
People in Sunderland have voiced their opinions on children being taken out of school for holidays. This comes after the news that a father, who refused to pay a fine after he took is daughter to DisneyWorld during term-time, lost his battle against the supreme court. Watch what the people […]
A local firm has agreed a deal to manufacture an invention that is designed to save the amount of waste from coffee cups. Andrew Brooks, the inventor of the pokito reusable coffee cup, raised more than £100,000 through crowdfunding to develop the idea. This put pokito in the top 1 […]