Sunderland City Council has launched a seven week consultation on the future shape of library services in the city. It comes after the announcement that the council is looking to relocate the City Library to Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens by the end of the year. The consultation is looking to seek the […]
A man has been taken to hospital after going into the river Wear. At 5:29pm on Wednesday, August 31, police received a report that a man was in the river Wear near to Lion Place in Sunderland. Officers attended and the man was brought out of the river and has […]
A Sunderland uniform recycling initiative is giving a helping hand to families facing the cost of buying primary school uniforms for the new term. ‘One For The Wardrobe’ is offering second hand uniforms free of charge to families in the city. The often almost new uniforms have been donated by parents in Wearside whose […]
The 17-year-old boy who was rescued by the RNLI at Roker Beach yesterday (August 30) has died of his injuries. He was taken to the RVI hospital with serious injuries. At 3.22pm on August 30, two 17-year-old males were seen in the water at the mouth of the Wear, near […]
Emergency services are carrying out a search and rescue operation to find a missing 17-year-old in the River Wear. At 3.22pm today (Tuesday, August 30) two 17-year-old males were seen in the water at the mouth of the Wear, near to the Old Pier at Sunderland Yacht Club. It is […]
A Sunderland mum has made an emotional plea for her son to come home one year after his disappearance. Callum Young, who will now be 23, was last seen on August 27 last year at his home in Hylton Road. Mr Young was reported missing three days later on August […]
A Sunderland woman with a 100-year-old kidney she received from her mother in the 1970s is thought to have the world’s oldest successfully transplanted kidney. Sue Westhead, from Houghton-le-Spring, received the swap in 1973 when her mother Ann Metcalfe was 57. Now, 43 years on, the kidney is still going strong, despite doctors […]
Sunderland Royal Hospital and its accident and emergency (A&E) Department have been praised by an American doctor after she witnessed the service firsthand. Dr Jennifer Gunter took her cousin Helen, who lives in the UK, to the city’s hospital after she twisted her ankle walking on cobblestones in high heels. Four hours after treatment, Dr […]
A total of seven people were arrested in the policing operation around the Sunderland v Middlesbrough football match on Sunday, August 21. All of those arrested were men. There were four arrests for conspiracy to cause violent disorder, two for disorderly conduct, and one for breach of the peace. Superintendent […]
Students from Sunderland College have been successful as they pick up their A Level results today (Thursday, August 18). The pupils have joined hundreds of thousands of people from across the country who have gained a place at their chosen university. Sunderland College, which has four campuses across the city, has continued with their 99 […]