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 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 group of North East solidarity seekers and aid workers will be sleeping out in South Shields to raise funds for a volunteer’s forthcoming aid mission to support refugees in Northern Greece and Serbia. The group are supporting Ruhi Loren Akhtar’s mission, to the European countries, which will take place on […]
SUNDERLAND’S Penshaw Monument and Gateshead’s Millenium Bridge will once again be lit tonight (Friday 15 July) in red, white and blue as a mark of solidarity following last night’s attack in Nice. Eighty-four people were killed in Nice, France last night (July 14) when an act of terrorism was carried […]
Hundreds of football fans across the region have surrendered their passports ahead of the Euro 2016 tournament. As the summer season approaches more than a hundred people will not be allowed to travel abroad – because they’re banned from watching football. Euro 2016 kicks off in France this week but […]
A fundraising page set up for a mother and son in intensive care after a crash which claimed three members of the same family has raised nearly £7,000. The Go Fund Me page was set up by Laura Austwicke in the wake of the tragedy which killed Hartlepool man […]
Tributes have been left for the British victims of a horrific car crash in Southern France. Driver John Crompton, 31, from Hartlepool, and two of his children, Morgan Christian Lund, aged nine, and four-year-old Evie-Lily Crompton died at the scene after their Nissan plummeted into a safety barrier at about […]