Two men who stabbed a man while repeatedly beating him with a dog-chain were convicted at Newcastle Crown Court on Friday, February 8, 2019. Kyle Dixon, 23 and Mark Roberts, 31, left their victim hospitalised as a result of the brutal assault on Hylton Road, Sunderland in August 2018. The pair […]
By Daisy Aitchison A man who prompted a police pursuit around Sunderland on Christmas Day has been jailed after pleading guilty to a string of driving offenses. Dylan Robinson, 25, was pursued after refusing to stop for police in the early evening of Christmas Day. After a prolonged chase, the […]
By Piper Patterson A man who attempted to steal money from a Pizza Hut in Sunderland has been convicted, having admitted to one charge of burglary. On December 17, 2018, William Trotter raided the restaurant in St Luke’s Terrace, Sunderland and attempted a clean getaway. However, it did not go […]
Sunderland’s Wearside Women in Need (WWIN) is calling for members of the public to become ‘Ask Me’ Ambassadors, in an innovative new approach to tackling domestic abuse. WWIN, a specialist domestic abuse service providing refuge accommodation and outreach services across Sunderland, is one of just three locations in the UK, […]
Women and girls in Sunderland will have access to free sanitary products as part of a new initiative backed by the council. Period poverty is prevalent in the North East, with girls missing school due to being unable to afford sanitary products and food banks reporting an increase in demand. […]
Health bosses in Sunderland have approved plans to replace walk-in centres in Washington, Houghton and Bunny Hill with a centralised service in Pallion. The public protested against the proposed closure of these urgent care centres and more than 14,000 people signed a petition to keep them open. NHS Sunderland Clinical Commissioning […]
An international tennis tournament is to take place in Sunderland next weekend (Feb 8). For the fifth year running, the U12 girls’ finals of the Winter Cup will be hosted at Silksworth Community Pool, Tennis and Wellness Centre. Over the space of three days, the tournament will feature players from […]
The Bridges Shopping Centre in Sunderland will be hosting an exhibition telling the life and story of Anne Frank, the teenage diarist who wrote at the time of the Holocaust. The exhibition was opened by the Mayor of Sunderland, Cllr Lynda Scanlan, who said: “It’s something that we should never […]
Sharon Hodgson, the Member of Parliament for Washington and Sunderland West, has vowed to vote against the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal in a speech to the House of Commons. The Labour MP, who also serves as the Shadow Minister for Public Health, was speaking in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 […]
A recent BBC case study into student’s mental health at the University of Sunderland has shown the use of mental health services at the university has risen by 378 per cent in four years. Twentynine-year-old Sunderland student, Laurena Ana Kennedy, has been suffering from anxiety and depression since she was […]