Among plenty of fun things to do in and around Sunderland, a live football match is bound to be one of the priorities for a lot of travellers. Football being what it is in the UK, a lot of visitors will want to see it first hand. And in...
Fit
and healthy family half-term fun is heading to Sunderland.
On
21st February an indoor sports festival will take place in the
Beacon of Light – the building next to Sunderland Aquatic Centre and opposite
the Stadium of Light.
From
12.00 pm to 3.00 pm, the Beacon of Light will host the BIG Indoor Sports
Festival –...
Sunderland’s
Stella Maris Seafarers’ Centre is a charity based at the Port of Sunderland
that provides welfare services to ships’ crews from around the world.
For
over a decade now, the centre been a comfort to seafarers who are far from
their homes and families and may be in need of a bit of...
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,...
World number one men's tennis player Novak Djokovic has had his visa to enter Australia revoked on his arrival in Melbourne in a huge backlash over a vaccine exemption.
Djokovic remains in immigration detention in Melbourne and is facing deportation after his entry to the country was denied on Wednesday.
The...
While England may have failed to deliver the results at the Ashes this year - one Sunderland graduate is using video technology to help improve his club’s success on the cricket field.
The role of a performance analyst in county cricket has grown rapidly over the last several years thanks...
A North East organisation is hitting out at the imminent blanket closure of swimming pools, warning it has the potential to harm the mental health of its young members.
Sunderland City Dive Team has worked hard to keep its divers – aged between six and 18 – in the water...
Beach-goers are being urged not to put their lives at risk by taking inflatables into the sea from Wearside’s beaches and riverside.
Safety organisations are particularly concerned about the use of Harbour Beach (between Roker and Old North Piers), which is not a designated bathing beach and where, unlike Roker...
Holly Sterling, University of Sunderland lecturer, launched her children’s book Karate Kids this weekend, published by Walker Books.
Karate Kids follows a group of children on their way to their karate lesson, and as it happens, the sport is set to make its debut at this summer’s Tokyo Olympics.
Holly said:...
Some
of the brightest young hopes for the future of international tennis will be
competing in Sunderland this weekend.
The Tennis Winter Cup will kick off today (8th February) at Silksworth Community Pool, Tennis and Wellness Centre and will continue until Sunday afternoon (10th February).
The
Tennis Winter Cup – sponsored by the sports...
