Just a week away before St. Patrick’s Day and Newcastle will be thriving with Irish festivities and celebrations in the heart of the city centre. Newcastle’s Times Square, famous for hosting Oktoberfest and seeing epic bands play Live from Times Square gigs is the main location for the first ever […]
We have gone around the Univeristy of Sunderland and found some students and staff who are celebrating International Women’s Day. Check out our slideshow below:
Sunderland student, Georgina Percival, managed to raise money for the Cardiac Risk in the Young charity (CRY) as part of a university project. Georgina, a final-year Music student at the University of Sunderland, raised more than £360 in one month for CRY, while performing a gig. The donations were received […]
Over 25 staff stayed overnight at Sunderland Royal Hospital to help out with severe conditions caused by the ‘Beast from the East’ this week. NHS staff at Sunderland Royal Hospital plan to stay overnight until the weather calms, and trusts on Teesside and Newcastle have offered staff beds. Leith Hasson, […]
North Tyneside residents gathered at Killingworth Lake on February 25 to release balloons in memory of Frankie Sherwood. Four-year-old Frankie lived in Dudley and lost his life to Neuroblastoma, a rare form of childhood cancer, earlier in the month. The Rev David Gray, of St John’s Vicarage, was among more […]
Home developing company Gentoo Homes have submitted phase one of plans to build 500 new homes in the Chester Gate area of Sunderland. The plans suggest building the homes in the area will have a total value of £74million, and will be available to both buy and rent. The proposal […]
It’s a Wednesday night and I’m feeling good. I’ve been pre-drinking with friends, and now we’re out on the town. Into a club we go, dancing and drinking some more. One of my friends shouts “Toilet!” to me over the music. I nod, even though I don’t have to go, […]
New plans to restore one of the region’s iconic landmarks, St Mary’s Lighthouse, have been unveiled by North Tyneside Council. After the original proposals for the lighthouse were rejected in November 2017 due to fears for the safety of seals in the area, a new safeguarding scheme for the lighthouse […]
February was LGBT History Month, a time to remember and celebrate LGBT history as well as look at areas where society still needs to move forward in terms of equality. As the month comes to a close, young adults of the LGBT community shared their stories and what this month […]
Madam Mayor, Councillor Doris MacKnight, celebrated the Year of the Dog for Chinese New Year in The Bridges and praised the event’s coordinators Ian Wong and Sue Henderson. “This is the first time I’ve been at the Chinese New Year celebrations as Mayor of Sunderland and it’s been absolutely fabulous, […]