A charity football match held in Bradley Lowery’s hometown of Blackhall, County Durham has raised more than £500 for the Sunderland AFC fan’s funds. The match, which ended in a draw between Lacey’s Lads and Blackhall Hardwick, took place at the weekend at Blackhall Welfare Park. A total of £523.22 was […]
A family from Gateshead are to carry on with their son’s 21st birthday celebrations despite the threat of him becoming blind. The Skeen-Dodgson family, who live in Rowlands Gill, were faced with the setback on Tuesday after receiving the news that family member, Dominic Skeen had two bleeds in his […]
A Newcastle organisation is looking to raise funds in order to deliver period education to North East schools. For this project, the organisation, Verbal Remedy, want to educate school children in the region on menstruation, period shame and stigma as well as make them aware of how issues like homelessness […]
A grieving dad has vowed to carry on his daughter’s legacy ahead of the one year anniversary since her death. Chris Bell, of Seaham, County Durham, lost his 17-year-old daughter Megan Bell, after she died at the T in the Park festival last July. An inquest into her death is ongoing. […]
A charity football match for Sunderland AFC fan Bradley Lowery is to be held in his hometown of Blackhall, County Durham. The match takes place tonight at 6pm (April 7) at Blackhall Welfare Park, between Blackhall Hardwick and charity team Lacey’s Lads. It was organised by Phillip Brown, who is from […]
A North East woman, who has experienced domestic violence, has called out Sunderland AFC manager David Moyes’ “get a slap” comment – warning the subject should not be trivialised. The Black Cats manager made the comment after an interview with BBC reporter Vicki Sparks. Moyes said to Sparks she “might get a […]
A Sunderland mum has warned people not to pull the April Fools Day joke about being pregnant after she delivered her stillborn son. [DISCLAIMER: Some of the images in this piece may be distressing]. Kirsty McGurrell lost her son Louis in 2009 after carrying him for 38 weeks. The 28-year-old from Shiney Row, […]
A volunteer has began providing “doggie bags” homeless dogs in the North East. Christopher Smith founded the idea when handing out hygiene packs to street friends during the regular North East Help Link Soup Kitchen that takes place at the Discovery Museum car park. Mr Smith said: “We have a number of […]
A group of North East solidarity seekers and aid workers will be sleeping out in South Shields to raise funds for a volunteer’s forthcoming aid mission to support refugees in Northern Greece and Serbia. The group are supporting Ruhi Loren Akhtar’s mission, to the European countries, which will take place on […]
According to the NHS, congenital heart disease is one of the most common types of birth defect, affecting up to nine in every 1,000 babies born in the UK. And one little girl from Sunderland was one of those nine affected. Luna Petrucci, now four years old, was diagnosed shortly before her second birthday […]