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In a city built on football, Newcastle’s rugby union club is on the cusp of a new era under new owners, Red Bull. But with the local obsession with the round ball game bring the first failure for the famous sporting branded franchise? Executive Director of Rugby Development at the RFU Steve Grainger, gives his take on […]
Music City launched the campaigns like the Year of Music to highlight young musicians. With Music City’s strategies to amplify and progress their careers, Erin reports on the local talents that are being lifted out of deprivation and into stardom. Unless you were deep in the Sunderland music scene, no one could have expected the […]
Twenty-five years ago, a new voice for the Northeast flickered into life. The Foundation of Light was launched with a mission that went far beyond football. Built alongside Sunderland AFC, the charity set out to harness that unifying power of the club to tackle some of the region’s biggest social challenges – from education and […]
Associated with toilet habits and vegetables, dietary fibre hasn’t had the most glamorous rise to fame compared to its popular nutrient counterparts, like the explosive protein-madness of 2025. Recently, fibre has taken over our feeds, with hashtags like “#fibre-maxxing” dominating trends. But with overwhelming amounts of wellness and health information available at the tap […]
In a world where reading is more available than ever with access to thousands of books at our fingertips through reading apps, physical books in every charity shop and ‘BookTok’ taking over For You Pages, why are fewer young people reading for pleasure and what changes are being made to reignite the spark for the […]
Aura Stephenson investigates how the community is reacting and coming together with the closure of the National Glass Centre looming The National Glass Centre is a community space that holds beautiful art and glass work, a cafe with river views and glass blowing demonstrations to be emersed in Sunderland’s heritage. Everything is very bright and modern with areas filled with guests taking part in workshops or having coffee and cake. Currently, there […]
Lynden Gooch first visited Wearside at the age of 10 years-old, 17 years later he departed widely known as an ‘adopted Mackem’, representing Sunderland 247 times, scoring the winning goal in Sunderland’s first Wembley win since 1973 and restored the club back into the second tier. Spark Sunderland has had the opportunity to speak to Gooch and talk through his […]
Following Josh Kelly’s IBF light-middleweight world title win in January and rumours surrounding a world title fight at the Stadium of Light there’s been several questions posed regarding what kind of doors this is going to open for fighters in the North East. Josh Kelly started his boxing career at Hetton ABC in 2007. […]
North Shields – the 800-year-old town finally on the up after years of decline North Shields is a town on the up, its regeneration is well underway, and the future is bright for the town. The fishing port town suffered more than most when the region’s key industries – shipbuilding and mining – came crashing […]
After a tough season that ended in relegation, Aaron Wall gets behind the scenes access to the Newcastle Vikings as they rebuild and look for a return to the top. Last Season the Newcastle Vikings American Football team ended the season with a record of 1-9, finishing bottom of the Premiership North and subsequently facing […]
