A community arts project has transformed an underpass into a gateway to nature. In response to concerns by Wearsiders about being uneasy walking through the subway under the Barnes Roundabout (behind Hipsburn Drive), Sunderland City Council’s West Area Committee funded a community arts project which has painted the walls and […]
Sunderland based eco fashion business, Joined In Life, offers trendy t-shirts that are good to the environment and are helping solve world hunger with each sale. The fashion company’s charity partner, Mary’s Meals, have created a global movement by bringing a fresh nutritious daily meal to children around the world. […]
Sunderland’s largest wedding fair, The Wedding Wonder Show, returns to the Stadium of Light from noon until 3pm on Sunday February 7. Guests at the event, which has a Valentine’s Day theme, will have the chance to meet more than 100 exhibitors from across the North East, including top suppliers […]
Brit Award winning singer/songwriter and guitarist, James Bay, has been announced to headline the upcoming Mouth of the Tyne Festival in Tynemouth. The artist, who has also been nominated for a ‘Best Artist’ Grammy Award, will perform at the outdoor venue of Tynemouth Priory and Castle on July 9. Norma […]
Police have arrested two people in connection with the death of a man in North Shields. At 3:17am this morning (Mon Jan 25), the police received a report from the ambulance service that a man had been stabbed outside of an address in West Avenue. A 24-year-old man was taken […]
Sunderland’s Mowbray park was the hub of over 100 crimes in 2015, new figures have shown. Figures from the Police.uk website show that just this one park and its surrounding areas (Burdon Road, Borough Road, Toward Road and Park Road) have been the hub of over 100 crimes in 2015. […]
Sunderland has been placed fifth in a chart showing the top 10 ‘low wage, high welfare economies’. The findings came about from a report, called Cities Outlook 2016, completed by Centre for Cities. It looked at the average weekly salary for 63 cities within the UK. Sunderland has an average weekly […]
Plans have been submitted for a new multi-million pound hotel on the former Joplings site in Sunderland City Centre. The building, on John Street in Sunderland city centre, has stood empty since 2010 when the department store closed after entering administration. If planning permission is approved, the hotel would include […]
By John Ridley A report published last week by Spiked Online has ranked the University of Sunderland and the Student Union in the highest category for free speech. The Free Speech University Rankings (FSUR) is the UK’s first-ever nationwide analysis of campus censorship, using traffic light signals to indicate how […]
Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service have sent out a warning today (January 22) that they will “prosecute anyone who attacks firefighters” while they carry out life saving work. This warning comes after stones were thrown at a crew tackling a rubbish fire on Bridge Road South in North […]