A NETWORK of new busking spots is set to bring live music to the streets of Sunderland city centre.
Introducing five new spots designed to enrich the city's ambience and liveliness, providing buskers with dedicated areas to perform their music at some of the most bustling locations in the heart...
Taiyyibah Irfan’s life ambition to become a pharmacist has been a gruelling journey of heartache, loss, illness, and setbacks - but sheer determination has led to her achieving her career goals as well as an annual award for showing care and compassion.
Taiyyibah now begins her role as a pre-registration...
Experts from the University of Sunderland are leading the way in national policy when it comes to training teachers during the pandemic.
Professor Lynne McKenna, Dean of the Faculty of Education and Society, is playing a key role in shaping the future of teacher training as the sector continues to...
BRITISH Empire Medals (BEM) have been presented for outstanding services and devotion to the community.
The five BEMs were all presented on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen by the Lord Lieutenant of Tyne and Wear Mrs Susan Winfield OBE.
The presentations were made at a civic reception in the Mayor's...
Review: The Standing Water (Steel String Books) by David Castleton
Some books may be pleasant, easy reads – novels that cosily confirm us in our worldview, our habits and opinions. Other books seize us by the lapels, shake us, drag us to an imaginary window and force us to see...
A Sunderland writer with strong connections to TV’s Coronation Street is to give two talks next week as part of the Sunderland Literature Festival.
Glenda Young, who studied journalism at the University of Sunderland, has been running the Coronation Street Blog since 2007. She has also written seven Coronation Street TV-tie-in...
An academic from the University of Sunderland is part of a team which will conduct a survey of the attitudes of fans of Game of Thrones.
The team wish to establish what makes such a gloomy and death-ridden show so culturally successful and important.
The research team – which includes the...
City partners in Sunderland are joining the team to support the annual, national Amnesty International UK ‘Football Welcomes Refugees’ campaign.
The campaign was first launched in April 2017 to celebrate the contribution refugees and asylum seekers make, not only to football but to all aspects of community life.
Across the country,...
“Social prescribing is an innovative way to support health, wellbeing and reintegration through arts and creative practice”
As we honour those members of the armed forces who have fought and died in the line of duty on Remembrance Day - a project to help veterans improve their own health and...
