Today the hosts of Spark’s ‘Honest Politics’ show Keith Bays and Daniel Hordon welcomed into the Spark FM studios Dr Peter Hayes (senior lecturer in politics at Sunderland University) and Dr Kevin Yuill (assistant professor of American history at Sunderland University and a Brexit Party candidate for Houghton and Sunderland South). […]
It is incredible how many pumpkins are wasted in the wake of Halloween every year in the UK. According to an article 42 per cent of British people buy pumpkins for this holiday and over 18,000 tons of edible pumpkin is thrown away. However, this plant has many nutritious benefits […]
A snap general election has been called for December 12th 2019, the first general election to take place in December since 1923. Now, people are being called on to register to vote in their constituencies for their local MPs and, ultimately, who they think the next Prime Minister should be. […]
South Shields MP Emma Lewell-Buck has lashed out at the Government for high levels of food insecurity, in both her own constituency of South Shields and in the rest of the United Kingdom. The MP, who has been representing her constituency in Parliament since 2013, said: “We have a lack […]
The spooky season is among us so get your pumpkins out and your Pennywise masks on, SR News are now sharing with you the top 10 best Halloween events within the North East this Halloween. From haunted houses to Halloween arts and crafts, ghost hunts to inflatable parties SR News […]
The North East has its first zero waste shop which was opened in the metro station of Tynemouth. An artist and plastic activist Jackie Sewell, 54, decided to open Buy the Kilo after she made an exhibition in 2017 called ‘642’ where she took a picture of every single plastic that […]
Stand-up comedy is one of the most popular forms of entertainment of our age, as any cursory glance at a TV guide will tell you. The North East has long been a hotbed for stand-up, producing a number of household names, such as Ross Noble, Sarah Millican and Chris Ramsey, […]
Giant tentacles and enormous eyeballs have heralded the launch of the North East’s biggest Halloween celebration. Sunderland’s Lights Out festivities begin on October 25, marking a packed programme of entertainment across the city for both adults and children. And at the heart of the event are giant tentacles which can […]
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of London on the 19th of October to march towards Parliament to demand a referendum on the Brexit deal that was being presented to Parliament by Boris Johnson that day. More than £500,000 was donated in support of the protesters who arrived […]
£437 has been raised for Sunderland Community Soup Kitchen during a charity gig at Independent Sunderland last weekend. The show took place Saturday October 19 with three local Sunderland artists playing cover sets of famous bands to […]