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

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?

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.

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?