The tourist attraction at Jarrow announced their closure last month on their website stating: “It is with great regret that the Trustee Board took the decision for Bede’s World to cease operation from Friday 12 February 2016 due to a lack of funds.” The museum was run by the Bede’s […]
Sunderland City Council has agreed its budget for 2016 to 2017. It was agreed today (Wednesday March 2) at a budget council meeting. The council agreed to reduce its spending by £46 million and to raise the city’s Council Tax by four per cent. The increase in council tax is […]
Northumbria Police will be out in force on our roads this month as they look to support a national crackdown on drug drivers. The force’s Op Dragoon team will be targeting motorists across the region who are flouting the drug drive laws introduced one year today (March 2). The new laws […]
Students in Sunderland who are interested in the software industry are being given an insight into their future prospects at an event today, March 2. More than 200 students from year nine to 11 attended a Software Sector Day to find out about careers in the industry. The insight day, […]
Twelve people have been arrested in a series of raids after a shot was fired at a house in Sunderland. The arrests were in connection to an incident that happened on Monday at around 1.40pm when the window of a house was shot at on Edgmond Court in Hollycarrside. […]
The Great North Run has launched an initiative to feature a participant from every country in the world – and members of the North East public have been called upon to help organisers achieve the goal. The Great Run Company aims to recruit at least one runner born in every […]
Sunderland University student Oliver Marsay is hoping a £10,000 scholarship prize will be the springboard to a world-class career in electronic engineering research. Oliver, 21, from Whitby, has been named as the first recipient of the William Beadnell scholarship award. Now in his third year of an Electronic and Electrical […]
Year nine pupils from various schools across the North East are taking part in a languages bake-off competition at the end of March. This competition is a video and cooking competition designed to encourage young people to study languages. Hosted by the University of Sunderland on March 21, there will […]
The South Tyneside International Magic Festival, run annually by South Tyneside Council, returns from the 13th spellbinding year in 2016. The line-up for the Gala, taking place on March 11 and 12, includes the first woman to be named German Champion of Magic, Alana, former Swedish and Scandinavian Champion of […]
North East campaigners have travelled to London to march with politicians against the renewal of Britian’s nuclear weapons system Trident. They made the 600 mile round-trip to join Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party leader and Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) on Saturday, February […]