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A potted history of sewage pollution in the North East

Asiatic cholera arrived first in Sunderland in 1831-2, the first such epidemic in Britain, bringing notoriety to the town. The outbreak killed 215 people locally, triggering a national calamity as it spread during 1832. Does this sound familiar?

UBI Videocast

A Universal Basic Income or citizen’s income is a system in which everyone in society, poor to rich, gets a regular payment, replacing means-testing of welfare and benefits.

UBI Lab Network presenting their case to us for a Universal Basic Income

What is... A Flood Plain?

Each month, our section, 'What is...?' will take an unbiased look at terms often used but never really explained. This month, the 'big four' talking points...

Plastic Free – Why and How?

A walk through the supermarket aisles can sometimes feel like going plastic-free is just a distant fantasy, while recent images of COVID-19 related face masks and gloves washed up on beaches remind us of damage caused by single-use plastics.

Community Wealth Building

Each month, our section, 'What is...?' will take an unbiased look at terms often used but never really explained. This month, Communtiy Wealth Building.

A People’s Manifesto for South Tyneside

Citizens Assembly South Tyneside (CAST) is putting forward this draft People’s Manifesto, which is the result of several Zoom consultations and an online survey held in the summer of 2020, for discussion and amendment by the community as a whole.

Cybercrime and Online Fraud

The term ‘cybercrime’ refers to crime carried out online and usually involves stealing your confidential information. This can be done through your computer/laptop, tablet, smart TV, games console and/or smartphone – basically, anything connected to the internet.

Galsworthy Road & Tile Sheds Ln - £15 million apart

A petition set up by residents is calling for South Tyneside Council to install a safer pedestrian crossing on Galsworthy Road, South Shields. It comes after decades of repeated serious and fatal accidents; but why is it taking a petition to push for change?

Transparency and Accountability in our local NHS

Openness and transparency can help build trust but only if you are genuinely open to hearing what others have to say.
In 2017, Phase 1 of ‘The Path to Excellence’ programme began its public consultation phase ‘to gather public views around the different ways NHS services could be arranged in South Tyneside and Sunderland’.

Council Breaks Silence Over Tilesheds Crossing Plans

South Tyneside Council for the first time have released thier intended plans to the public. Two options are on the table, full level crossing barriers that will replace the current 'half' barriers, or construct a £15 million bridge over the Network Rail owned line between Newcastle and Sunderland at Tilesheds and Boldon Lane level crossings. 

New group will campaign for special needs children

Parents and carers of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in South Tyneside have formed a new group called Arise South Tyneside to campaign on behalf of families in the area.

Tree action group makes its voice heard

South Tyneside Tree Action Group (STTAG) was formed in May 2018 by South Tyneside residents who feel extremely concerned with the mature tree felling happening across the area. Our aim is to save as many healthy, mature trees as possible.

72nd anniversary of the NHS

People speaking in their own name on this anniversary on our NHS and healthcare system with a physically distanced celebration along the lines of what the NHS means to you to keep the heartbeat going.

So, should you send your child back to school?

The government wants primary schools to start reopening from June 1 even though it is far from certain that the coronavirus pandemic is under control. You have to ask, why all the rush?

Allyson Pollock Podcast

As Director of the Newcastle University Centre for Excellence in Regulatory Science, Prof. Pollock has spoken out about the corporate direction in which NHS Trust Boards are being driven, with mergers going hand-in-hand with reducing services and the establishment of private companies.

Citizens Assembly Casts Off

The Citizens Assembly of South Tyneside, or CAST for short, aims to “provide an independent, inclusive and democratic voice for the diverse community”.