Emergency services raced to the incident on the A19 northbound in Sunderland after receiving the alarm at 10.20am on Friday. It has been confirmed there are no serious injuries. Footage from the ...

Sunderland was brought to a standstill by ... it threatened all other properties on the block. Traffic jams soon built up when the blaze at Shares on November 14, 1969 closed traffic routes.

Sunderland City Council has confirmed the proposed traffic lights have been dropped in favour of turning one of the traffic lanes into a bus lane. The local authority said traffic modelling had ...