A Wearside man had designs on success - and it involved the Royal family and Arthur Scargill. Bill Spalding went into production of chess sets on a full-time basis in 1986 after the success of a set he created based on the Miners’ Strike in 1984. It proved so popular that he chose The Royals’ as his latest move in the board game market. Bill made the pieces by hand at his home in Hetton. He sent a set of his latest creation to the Queen and was given “a seal of approval” for the design. He...
A SMASH-HIT kids’ cartoon about a family of dogs is wooing Hollywood stars, topping TV viewing figures and leaving parents in floods of tears. Bluey, which first aired in 2018, has reached such cul
The controversial Australian basketball star was impossible to miss when she was spotted doing some high-end shopping with a friend in Melbourne earlier this week.
Taylor Swift is already breaking records with her 11th studio album, a double record titled The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology (TTPD).
Ralf Little's DI Neville Parker will be replaced on Death In Paradise by 'someone younger' than the 44-year-old according to Beyond Paradise star Peter Davison.
POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY (KSNT) – One person is confirmed dead after a tornado hit Westmoreland Tuesday afternoon. According to the Pottawatomie County Public Information Officer, one person was k
This is Severe Weather Preparedness week and this is the time of year we can start to get strong and even severe thunderstorms.
A Sunderland composer has come up with his contender for a holiday hit - 50 years after he had his own Spanish adventure. Derek Buckham has looked back on the year that he and four other young Wearsiders rented a Spanish villa. His reflections come at the same time as he released his latest song on social media, called Have A Holiday. Five decades ago, five Sunderland lads didn’t have enough money to fly to Spain despite having booked a villa there. So they took a car on the 1,150 mile journey...
How our life ends isn’t always up to us, but that question too often must be answered by loved ones and health care workers who don’t know what we would want.
CINCINNATI -- Elly De La Cruz stole three bases and supplied a three-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning that secured a 7-1 Reds victory over the Angels on Friday at Great American Ball Park. In his second start of the season, Nick Lodolo pitched 6 1/3
One person is confirmed dead and three others are seriously hurt after a tornado hit Westmoreland Tuesday afternoon.
Four years ago, Milton was not on the radar as a legit title contender in boys weightlifting. Oh, how times have changed.