NATIONAL Album Day will be hoping to hit a high note as it returns for its third year. The event aims to celebrate music albums and what they mean to fans. Taking place tomorrow (Saturday, October 10), this year’s theme is the 80s, a period voted as Britain’s favourite […]
POET and University of Sunderland lecturer Alistair Robinson has launched his third collection of poetry. “As Blind as Rain” is Alistair’s third collection published by Red Squirrel Press, following Stereograms Of The Dead, published in 2009, and The Land Before Yoghurt, published in 2014. His latest work follows themes he […]
A MAN has been charged with murder following a fatal fire in Easington Lane two years ago. On November 3, 2018, emergency services were called to the Manor House premises, on High Street, following a report of a fire which sadly claimed the life of Patryk Mortimer, 39. Patryk, who […]
UNIVERSITY of Sunderland’s city centre campus will open its Covid-19 test centre later this week, amid the continued rise of cases in the North East. On Tuesday, the government announced 14,542 confirmed new cases nationwide – an increase of about 2,000 on Monday’s figure. Now, as the region continues […]
With people feeling they’re missing out on so many aspects of their lives due to coronavirus restrictions, could ‘fear of missing out’ (FOMO) explain the rise in cases in Sunderland and elsewhere? Or is there simply a lack of respect for rules which many feel are contradictory and illogical? Sam […]
THE North East’s very first graduate from a national pilot programme designed to ‘professionalise’ child and family support work has just completed her course at the University of Sunderland (UoS). UoS was selected as one of only eight universities in the country – and the first in the region […]
THIS was the seemingly innocent torch found by police while searching a suspect – which turned out to be a disguised stun gun. Officers were called to Mowbray Park, in Sunderland, in September 2018 after a member of the public reported a man with a suspected Taser. They spotted […]
MORE than 750 students at Northumbria University are self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19. A spokesperson for the university, in Newcastle, said that as of Friday, it was aware of 770 students testing positive – only 78 of whom were showing symptoms of the virus. All these students, as […]
SUNDERLAND fan George Foster received a surprising phone call yesterday from Sunderland manager Phil Parkinson. The 93-year-old super-fan has followed Sunderland his whole life and is currently chairman of the Supporters’ Association. Over recent months George had felt detached from the club due to the impact of Covid, but […]
SUNDERLAND bars and restaurants are calling for greater financial support, following the tightening of regional coronavirus restrictions. The local rules ban people from socialising outside their own household, and say groups of no more than six can meet up. People have also been told to avoid meeting with other […]