Sunderland’s Christmas lights were switched on in Keel Square on Thursday, November 22, marking the beginning of a wide range of festive activities in the area over the next six weeks. Between 5.30-7pm, a number of familiar faces were involved in lighting up a dark, damp autumn evening in the […]
Cash 4 Calendars, a charity initiative set up by Spark FM, is aiming to provide advent calendars for every child reliant on Sunderland’s foodbanks this Christmas. The fundraising drive, in partnership with Sunderland Foodbank and Trussell Trust, hopes to raise upwards of £500 to achieve its goal. The initiative was […]
Local talent will be put at the heart of a new online campaign showing how lottery funding impacts and benefits real people in their hometown. The National Lottery has today launched a talent search across the City of Sunderland to find an ambitious young budding TV presenter to star in […]
As part of a national festival, a series of free events are set to draw attention to Sunderland’s proud heritage. Hundreds of free activities have been organised in towns and cities across the UK as part of the annual Being Human festival, a celebration of the way in which culture and […]
Sunderland marked Armistice Day on Sunday with the city’s annual Remembrance Parade and Danny Boyle’s ‘Pages of the Sea’ display. Local people turned out in their thousands for both events on the day that marked the centenary of the signing of the Armistice that ended the First World War in […]
November 11, 2018 marked 100 years since the end of the First World War and Sunderland hosted a parade in which servicemen, veterans and the mayor took part. Veterans lined the streets of Sunderland as they told old stories, watched the parade and fell silent, along with everyone else, for two […]
Sunderland’s annual Remembrance Parade and Danny Boyle’s touching ‘Pages of the Sea’ display will mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War on Sunday. And they represent two of the highlights of a wide-ranging programme of continuing events across the city. The parade, one of the […]
Spark FM and Sunderland University enjoyed a successful night at this year’s Student Radio Awards in London. Spark, with seven nominations in 16 categories, won gold awards for Best Interview and Best Speech Programming and took silver for Best Specialist Show. Emma Casson, an MA Radio graduate at the University […]
The Spice Girls will perform at Sunderland AFC’s Stadium of Light in the first of a new series of concerts at the venue. The group, who scored nine number one chart hits between 1996 and 2000, have reunited for live shows in 2019; they will be supported by top-selling English […]
A recent report has ranked Sunderland number five in the UK’s top 10 most unhealthy high streets. The report, published by The Royal Society for Public Health, takes a number of factors into account including the number of leisure centres, betting shops and museums that the high street has to […]