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Branded Lorries Helping to Raise Awareness of Dragonfly Cancer Trust
The iconic Coca Cola Christmas truck will have a run for it’s money this year as North East based transport company, Hawthorns Logistics, will be travelling up and down the country in two specially branded lorries helping to raise awareness of Dragonfly Cancer Trust. Also based in the North East,...
A short video to highlight the situation that North East food banks have found themselves in during the COVID-19 crisis has been produced and a British Independent Film Award winner has given his support to help others Northumberland film maker, Jason Thompson, runs his firm, Sound Ideas Media from his...
Many people are taking on challenges and setting themselves daily fitness goals while on lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic, but for one Sunderland lecturer her need to keep fit and mobile has led to her setting herself a very unusual challenge – and rediscovering the meaning of good neighbours. Liz...
Hundreds of graduate and student nurses from the University of Sunderland have been deployed - or are waiting to join - the frontline to help in fight against Covid-19. Just weeks ago a 40-strong graduating cohort of nurses began working at hospitals across the North East as the NHS faces...
A BT office block
Telecoms giant BT has plans to bring 165 jobs to the north east of England. The jobs on offer will range from ICT (information communication technology) roles to HR, vehicle maintenance, and customer service posts. BT will especially be looking to recruit youngsters via its graduate and apprentice recruitment programmes....
Vertu Motors is opening the majority of service departments for key workers and their vehicles Service departments at Bristol Street Motors Sunderland Vauxhall and Peterlee Hyundai and Vertu Honda Sunderland will all be open. Anyone classed by the government as a key worker, or vehicles such as utilities, emergency services and...
New Social Media Competition Launched In Europe By LATAM Airlines
CURIOSITY,  #MAKESYOUFLY  Return trip for two to South America available to win Entries close on 28 June 2021 From yesterday, LATAM Airlines invites UK travellers to search for a hidden point on the continent through a social media competition, requiring users to find the only luminous poster the airline has in Europe...
photo courtesy of Torley, from Flickr Creative Commons
A University of Sunderland graduate has penned a Japanese-themed series of books full of swords, sorcery and humour. After graduating in 1990 with a degree in English studies, Jason Rohan went to work as a teacher in Japan. His experiences there – as well as his travels to destinations like...
Fast-growing U.S. cybersecurity company heads to the North East of UK to expand EMEA operations and tap into the region’s thriving base of technology talent NEWCASTLE, UK – September 14, 2022 – Arctic Wolf®, a leader in security operations, today officially opened its new EMEA Headquarters in Newcastle, as it celebrates rapid...
Six kids playing a string telephone and tuning forks.
A mix of frozen budgets, increasing costs and a new method for distributing central government funding could leave north east schools facing a future in which they struggle to maintain educational standards. Schools may have to fire teachers, class sizes could go up and schools might have to stop teaching...

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