THE pandemic has caused a sharp rise in the backlog of crown court cases, with Newcastle leading in the North East with over 1,600 cases still waiting to be heard, an SR News investigation has found. DATA from freedom of information request (FOI) shows how in January 2020, Newcastle Crown […]
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Sunderland split over Labour’s Covid-19 ‘circuit break’ national lockdown
SUNDERLAND is a city divided over Kier Starmer’s full-scale national ‘circuit break’ lockdown to try to halt Covid-19. For Wearsiders, the lockdown rules have already had a profound impact on businesses and families, particularly with current lockdown restrictions preventing the mixing of households. However, due to the increase of […]
I didn’t expect to be writing fashion journalism in state quarantine…
Fashion North‘s Barbora Bednarova reveals her two-day, 1,400-mile journey through six countries to get home to Slovakia from the University of Sunderland We all heard about Coronavirus before it hit us. I remember I was reading an article about the Chinese government wanting to build a hospital in seven days. […]
Opinion: We need equality more than ever during this pandemic
#The CoronaDiaries IN A TIME of uncertainty, panic and fear, we can be sure of one thing: the royals are doing just fine, thank you for asking. For those of you who have been living under a rock recently, COVID-19 has quite literally swept the globe and put many […]
How Covid-19 is affecting North East independent businesses
#The CoronaDiaries THE Prime Minister announced that non-essential businesses and venues were not allowed to open for trade from March 23 2020, due to the outbreak of Covid-19. This included eating and drinking establishments, assembly and leisure, retail, hotel and non-residential institutions, unless there is a notable exception. […]