An ex-offender and a former prison officer have teamed up to help prisoners in Durham. Gary Crooks and Ross Oakes had two very different childhoods. Gary’s was an early life of crime that led to Durham prison by the time he was 15. Ross became a supermarket manager and then […]
An old garden shed has been transformed into a creative space for artists and members of the public in Sunderland, in the form of a Christmas grotto. The grotto opened its doors on November 29, 2018 and will remain open until December 23, 2018. There will be sessions held with […]
The CitySpace facility at the University of Sunderland was temporarily transformed into a Christmas market filled with a variety of festive activities in a bid to spread holiday cheer across the city. Visitors to the market were given the opportunity to stock up on Christmas gifts for loved ones, with […]
A young couple who have been together for over two years, Ben Robinson (18) and Rachael Allen (18) who both study at the University of Sunderland have decided to shave their heads for Cancer Research UK on December 20. “As a charity Cancer Research UK does research into finding new […]
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 […]
Student James Allan has just landed his dream job with a Premier League football club after taking a leap of faith. It has been all change for James over the last couple of years. After leaving Jarrow School in South Tyneside, the football-mad teenager took up an engineering apprenticeship. Then, […]
Mariam Khattab, a University of Sunderland Journalism student, 21, has been nominated for the Best Student Science Journalist award at this year’s Association of British Science Writers awards. Ms Khattab’s story ‘Earth’s underwater sand dunes help explain Venus’ weird surface’ was published in New Scientist magazine in November 2017. It […]
A North East university has launched a campaign this week tackling attitudes to hate crime, harassment and violence. The campaign, which includes an animated video, posters and a poem focussing on what is acceptable behaviour, has been created by two University of Sunderland graduates. The new campaign was created […]
A broadcast journalism student from the University of Sunderland has won a prestigious Royal Television Society Award. Theofanis Pegkas, from Greece, won the Regional Student award in the news category for the video report he compiled of an anti-Trump demonstration in Newcastle. Theofanis described it as a “great honour” to collect the […]
This week sees the release of Paddington 2 in cinemas – and while many families are looking forward to a fun movie experience, a North East academic has discovered that the small bear is not only a fictional character who is entertaining – he is also an illegal immigrant, and […]