Jazz and funk band The Brand New Heavies will headline Sunniside Live, the only live music festival in Sunderland City Centre. Following on from the huge success last year, the festival aims to be bigger and better when it returns to Sunniside Gardens on Saturday July 16. Ahead of a US tour, […]
First year Sunderland student, Emma Goring, is holding a Japanese experience in the National Glass Centre today (January 29). The National Glass Centre restaurant, The Glass Yard, will be swapping the usual plain white tea and coffee mugs for the glass and ceramics student’s handmade vessels and will be serving […]
ITV News presenter Alastair Stewart spoke to SR News ahead of a talk he gave at the University of Sunderland yesterday (January 26). The newscaster talked to students, graduates and Wearsiders about the pressures facing an independent media at the University Murray Library. He also gave advice to aspiring journalists […]
A community arts project has transformed an underpass into a gateway to nature. In response to concerns by Wearsiders about being uneasy walking through the subway under the Barnes Roundabout (behind Hipsburn Drive), Sunderland City Council’s West Area Committee funded a community arts project which has painted the walls and […]
Police have arrested two people in connection with the death of a man in North Shields. At 3:17am this morning (Mon Jan 25), the police received a report from the ambulance service that a man had been stabbed outside of an address in West Avenue. A 24-year-old man was taken […]
By John Ridley A report published last week by Spiked Online has ranked the University of Sunderland and the Student Union in the highest category for free speech. The Free Speech University Rankings (FSUR) is the UK’s first-ever nationwide analysis of campus censorship, using traffic light signals to indicate how […]
SR News have got reports that coastguards are currently rescuing ‘stranded’ walkers on Roker Pier. According to the SR News source the walkers are being removed through an internal underground tunnel. More follows…
By Alice Winney & Gemma Westland It’s brass monkeys this January and a lady from Seaburn has been busy knitting to keep our fury friends warm. Jan Brown has spent over 4,000 hours with her knitting needles, making everything from snoods to jumpers for greyhounds across the world. Since her knitting skills […]
The work of a unique group of North East film-makers will be at the centre of a short film festival at St Mary’s Heritage Centre in Gateshead. The St Mary’s Documentary Short Film Festival, running from January 26 to 29, will celebrate the work of the Amber Film and Photography […]
Missing Newcastle woman Laura Harden has been found safe and well.