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Plans for a historic former school to be turned into a restaurant have been given the green light. Langham Tower, one of the city’s most recognisable buildings and currently a bar and event venue, has had plans to transform the ground and first floor of the building into a restaurant approved by Sunderland City Council. […]
An investigation has been ordered into the poor sound quality inside Sunderland’s multi-million pound City Hall building. Sunderland City Council moved into its current headquarters towards the back end of 2021, and meetings in the building’s chamber have been plagued by sound issues since. City Hall on St Mary’s Way cost £42million to build. At […]
Local residents have expressed concerns over the future of the National Glass Centre after reports of it relocating. Following a specialist external review, it’s been determined that £45million of repairs need to be carried out on the National Glass Centre (NGC), leaving the future uncertain for the building which locals have hit back at. Despite […]
It’s National Pizza Day today and here at Spark we want to help you celebrate in the right way and make sure you don’t miss out! You can’t go wrong with pizza and depending on your preferences it can be suited for everyone, whether you’re vegetarian or gluten-free there’s something for everyone. So here at […]
Bridget Phillipson took aim at the Government today, saying that the Conservatives have overseen “a decade of decline in skills and training opportunities”. This has happened at the start of National Apprenticeship Week, while apprenticeships were down 6.1% at the start of the 2022/23 academic year. Labour plan to hire over a thousand careers advisers […]
Residents in Sunderland wanting to hold a street party to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III will have to seek permission from Sunderland City Council. The first coronation in the country since that of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 will take place on Saturday May 6, 2023 at Westminster Abbey in London, and will […]
Covid-19 hospital admissions have increased in Sunderland and other parts of Britain, with the UK Health Security Agency now monitoring the latest variant dubbed “Kraken”. Kraken, or its official name XBB.1.5, was first discovered in the US in October but the variant has now been discovered in the UK with one in 20 cases being […]
Thousands of Newcastle United fans are expected to travel to London without a ticket for the Carabao cup final. Newcastle United will face Manchester United on February 26 at 4.30pm at Wembley stadium. But, with an allocated ticket allowance of just under 33,000, it’s expected many fans will be ticketless in the capital. A big […]
