Sunderland Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) saved 93 people from the sea last year, according to rescue statistics issued today. They had 70 launches of their volunteer lifeboat crews and lifeguards in 2015. Andrew Ashton, RNLI divisional operations manager in the north of England, said: “The RNLI’s volunteer lifeboat crews […]
The North East is set to be awarded development funding to expand on low emission motoring in the area. As much as £5million will go to the North East, York, Dundee and Oxford, as part of £40m investment Go Ultra Low Cities has announced. The funding has been awarded to the […]
#SmearForSmear raising awareness of the importance of attending #smeartests. Nominate your friends & support @JoTrust pic.twitter.com/bIT45jXeg2 — SmearForSmear.com (@SmearForSmear) January 25, 2015 Jo’s Trust has re-launched the smeared lipstick selfie campaign for North East women to be tested for cervical cancer. The selfie campaign is part of Cervical Cancer Week […]
A community arts project has transformed an underpass into a gateway to nature. In response to concerns by Wearsiders about being uneasy walking through the subway under the Barnes Roundabout (behind Hipsburn Drive), Sunderland City Council’s West Area Committee funded a community arts project which has painted the walls and […]
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. […]
Sunderland’s largest wedding fair, The Wedding Wonder Show, returns to the Stadium of Light from noon until 3pm on Sunday February 7. Guests at the event, which has a Valentine’s Day theme, will have the chance to meet more than 100 exhibitors from across the North East, including top suppliers […]
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. […]
Sunderland has been placed fifth in a chart showing the top 10 ‘low wage, high welfare economies’. The findings came about from a report, called Cities Outlook 2016, completed by Centre for Cities. It looked at the average weekly salary for 63 cities within the UK. Sunderland has an average weekly […]