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Megan Turnock, Community Fundraising Officer at St Benedict's Hospice, at the the Silksworth Home of Jan Prater, whose Halloween display is raising funds for the local charity.

Ghoulish exhibition at Sunderland home grabs attention

Writer and walking tours guide Ian Mole on Elmwood Street, Sunderland.

'Skinch! Skinch!' Street games in 1960s Sunderland

Penshaw Hill in Sunderland was the place to be on the evening of the eclipse.

Solar eclipse draws hundreds to Sunderland's Penshaw Hill

Entrepreneur Bob Senior discusses the CLR SKN spray developed in Sunderland.

Flavour Blaster firm gunning for fresh success

Glen Conley, owner of The Jacket Inn in Jacky Whites Market.

Spud specialist The Jacket Inn set for expansion

After battling breast cancer and with her 50th coming up this year, Nicola Hutchinson says life's too short for her not to make a 9,000-mile trip to see Take That in Sunderland again.

Take That superfan's 9,000-mile trip to see Sunderland show

South Shields singer Joe McElderry spoke to us as he prepared for a string of North East dates, as well as his annual festive show at Newcastle’s O2 City Hall on December 1, 2025.

Watch: Joe McElderry on tour, Colmans chips, X Factor & grandma Hilda

Tom Owens is already two times England’s Strongest Man, and Britain’s Strongest Man, and is heading to Texas in November, 2025, to compete for a world title.

Watch: Strongman star Tom trains in Sunderland for world title

Christiano Crawford, one of the directors of Psycho Path, which returns to the North East on September 27, 2025.

Watch as 'scream park' Psycho Path returns for 2025

Nath, 27, from Ryhope, started his career pathwhen he was just 12.

I started DJing at 12 - now I'm playing an Ibiza superclub

The series takes a quickfire look at stories from past editions of the Sunderland Echo - with numerous images from our archive.

Amazing stories in the pages of the Sunderland Echo from years gone

Alisha Blunt runs her own business, Pink Palace Bakes, in Sunderland.

Watch: Dairy-free cake-baking for Veganuary

The charity co-founder calls for greater government commitment to suicide prevention and mental health.

Watch: Call for Government to commit to action

A look at the facts - and a throwing down of the gauntlet.

See who wins the battle to declare first

A run-down of some amazing folk from or with links to Wearside

Sunderland folk who've made history

We spoke to business owners - and a priest - in the uncertain week ahead of the announcement of the first 2020 lockdown.

Our report from the early Covid days

Victim Joan Hoggett, inset, and the shop in Sea Road, Sunderland, where the horrifying crime took place in 2018.

Watch: Horrifying knife killing that shocked Sunderland in 2018
The attack took less than a minute.
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James Copley hosts the show, with guests Phil Smith and Stephen 'Sleeves' Elliott

Special episode with guest Stephen Elliott showing on Freeview

Our host made a small number of slip-ups in 2023

Bloopers from the virtual cutting room floor

Tony Mowbray

What might be next for Black Cats after Mowbray sacking

North East singer Paul Martin hopes his song will be a Christmas number 1

Singer hopes for festive top spot

Sunderland-born boxer Josh Kelly and Sunderland Echo writer James Copley

Josh Kelly speaks to the Echo about Beacon of Light fight

Lost Shops of Sunderland’s old town centre

Take a tour of Sunderland’s lost shops

Walking tour guide Ian Mole takes us around the sites of some of Sunderland’s pubs from the 60s - some now gone forever.

Watch: a potted tour of Sunderland’s lost 1960s pubs

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced plans for a new Advanced British Standard qualification at the 2023 Conservative Party Conference

Ex teacher responds to Rishi Sunak education plans

Sunderland Echo reporter Tony Gillan hosts our bumper-length feature

A journey to some of Wearside’s weirdest corners

Reporter Tony Gillan takes us to a lost world where Sunderland had picture houses everywhere.

The lost picture houses of Sunderland

Sunderland’s Hero of Camperdown Jack Crawford is commemorated by a statue in the city’s Mowbray Park. Image courtesy of Sunderland Antiquarians

How Sunderland naval hero Jack Crawford was forgotten for decades
He’s a local lad who became a hero.
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The Ket Shop Girls, based in Blind Lane, Silksworth, put together a Barbie-themed mix-up

Making a Barbie Movie pick & mix with the Ket Shop Girls

The market has been on its current site for over 50 years - but has been going for even longer

Watch: Jacky Whites - Sunderland’s long-running market

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