British Empire Medal recipient and fundraising queen, Ann Walsh, is looking to Sunderland for Cancer Research Relay For Life participants. Ann Walsh, organiser of the Jarrow Relay for Life, is looking to recruit teams from Sunderland in order to raise her dream target of £1,000,000 for Cancer Research UK. Talking […]
Interview by Charlotte Carol Ann Lightfoot. In four days thousands of people will arrive in Newcastle to run the Great North Run’s 13.1 mile course. Katie-Jo Lynch is one of those individuals who will be pounding the pavements of the city and South Shields. [DISCLAIMER: Some of the images in this […]
A young couple from South Shields have been confirmed dead following the Manchester Arena attack on Monday night. The families of Chloe Rutherford, 17, and Liam Curry, 19, announced the pair “wanted to be together forever and now they are.” The sweethearts were said to be “inseparable” and “beautiful inside […]
A South Tyneside blogger has starred in a short film for BBC Three’s Skin Deep campaign talking about her facial disfigurement. Blogger Katie Meehan was born with a medical condition known as cystic hygroma. The condition caused cysts on Katie’s face, which left her facing many hospital trips and missing school. […]
Tattooing – a typically male dominated environment. However, four girls in North Shields are combating the stereotype and running the first all-female tattoo studio in the North East of England. On a busy street in North Shields, the sound of buzzing tattoo guns can be heard from outside a shop, […]
Breast cancer affects 160 out of 100,000 people in South Tyneside. In the area, more than 40 people out of the 100,000 lose their life to the disease. One man, Colin Burgin-Plews, also known as the Big Pink Dress, has watched his wife’s friend survive, but watched another friend die from the […]
Word on Wearside will be taking a more in-depth look at the day’s headlines affecting Sunderland and the North-East, as part of our In Focus series of podcasts. In this inaugural episode, we are exploring a call from a North-East lecturer to introduce a register for hate crime offenders.
Police have sealed off a South Shields street with a cordon in an ongoing incident. At 11.55am this morning (February 8), police received a report of concern for a man in an address in Moreland Road making threats and stating he had a firearm. The incident is currently contained inside […]
Lance-Corporal Trimaan Dhillon, also known as Harry Dhillon, 25, has been charged on suspicion of the murder of Alice Ruggles. Police found the body of the 24-year-old on Wednesday 12 in Rawlings Road, Gateshead. L Cpl Dhillon, of the royal regiment of Scotland, appeared before Newcastle Magistrates Court on Saturday. He […]
The Swim Safe programme of outdoor swimming and water safety sessions has returned to Sandhaven beach. The programme, aimed at 7 to 14-year-old’s, runs Wednesday to Saturday until August 20 and is delivered in partnership between the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). It is the third […]