Lou Lou’s Vintage Fair will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year, after years of making their way up from the bottom. The Vintage Fair was initially planned as a one-off event for lovers of all things nostalgic, to enjoy a day of vintage shopping from independent traders. Now, as the small […]
Black Friday Weekend was a commercial success in the North East, with record sales in Sunderland. The weekend, a holiday adopted from the US only a few years ago and which comes the day after Thanksgiving in America, marks the beginning of the Christmas season with huge sales on a […]
A historic pub in one of Sunderland’s oldest streets has been given a new lease of life thanks to a £30,000 refurbishment by local businessman, Graeme Tuckwell. The Vestry was once the best spot on a 1990s pub crawl. The Albert, formerly The Vestry in Fawcett Street, was taken on […]
A Sunderland confectionery shop has closed its doors after 13 years of trading in the city centre. Sweet Home Alabama, based on Fawcett Street, have ceased trading with immediate effect. Owners of the specialist confectionery venue, Martin O’Neill and his wife Joan O’Neill, announced the closure today (Thursday, September 7). The pair […]
Business is booming in Sunderland as new figures reveal tourism has risen in the city. Statistics from the Scarborough Economic Activity Model (STEAM), that looks at visitor numbers, visitor spend and the number of people employed by tourism in the city, have all increased. In 2016, 8.24 million people visited […]
The Northern Powerhouse Minister visited the University of Sunderland’s Hope Street Xchange earlier this week. The new centre for enterprise and innovation, created to support the city’s entrepreneurial growth, welcomed Jake Berry, who was appointed as minister in June this year. The minister toured the once derelict space – which now […]
A tea room in the city centre of Sunderland has announced it will be closing. The Elephant Tea Rooms, based on High Street West, will be shutting its doors to the public. On a post on their Facebook page, they said: “Due to very unfortunate and unforeseen circumstances we have […]
‘A night for Bradley’ took place at The Point in Sunderland on April 29 to help raise vital funds for Bradley Lowery and his fight against neuroblastoma. The night was a fun-filled event with magicians, tombola and even the X Factor’s ‘He Knows She Knows’ as headline act. Adele Pallas, Deana […]
A Sunderland hair salon has shown it’s a cut and colour above the rest after making it through to the grand final of a prestigious hairdressing competition. City centre hair salon, Frances Marshall, beat a host of other North East competitors in Leeds to win the L’Oreal Colour Trophy Star award […]
A local firm has agreed a deal to manufacture an invention that is designed to save the amount of waste from coffee cups. Andrew Brooks, the inventor of the pokito reusable coffee cup, raised more than £100,000 through crowdfunding to develop the idea. This put pokito in the top 1 […]