Sunderland based eco fashion business, Joined In Life, offers trendy t-shirts that are good to the environment and are helping solve world hunger with each sale. The fashion company’s charity partner, Mary’s Meals, have created a global movement by bringing a fresh nutritious daily meal to children around the world. […]
Brit Award winning singer/songwriter and guitarist, James Bay, has been announced to headline the upcoming Mouth of the Tyne Festival in Tynemouth. The artist, who has also been nominated for a ‘Best Artist’ Grammy Award, will perform at the outdoor venue of Tynemouth Priory and Castle on July 9. Norma […]
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 […]
Sunderland’s Mowbray park was the hub of over 100 crimes in 2015, new figures have shown. Figures from the Police.uk website show that just this one park and its surrounding areas (Burdon Road, Borough Road, Toward Road and Park Road) have been the hub of over 100 crimes in 2015. […]
Plans have been submitted for a new multi-million pound hotel on the former Joplings site in Sunderland City Centre. The building, on John Street in Sunderland city centre, has stood empty since 2010 when the department store closed after entering administration. If planning permission is approved, the hotel would include […]
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 […]
Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service have sent out a warning today (January 22) that they will “prosecute anyone who attacks firefighters” while they carry out life saving work. This warning comes after stones were thrown at a crew tackling a rubbish fire on Bridge Road South in North […]
Six people have been rescued by Sunderland Coastguards after the group got ‘stranded’ on Roker Pier due to high tides. No one is injured. The incident happened at about 2pm this afternoon. According to a SR News source the walkers were removed from the Pier through an internal underground tunnel […]
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 […]