A painting showing the River Wear more than a century ago has gone on display in Sunderland. The watercolour, entitled The Wear at Dawn, Deptford, has been bought by Sunderland Museum and Winter ...

A Tyne and Wear Metro crosses the Monkwearmouth Railway Bridge over the River Wear at dusk with the Northern Spire in the distance. (Image: Craig Connor/ChronicleLive) 5 of 20 Share ...

The spined loach is found in just five river catchments in the east of England – the Trent, Welland, Witham, Nene and Great Ouse. All these rivers were once a part of the Rhine catchment, at a ...

WATER experts have launched a new website telling the tales of a North-East river. The Wear Catchment Partnership has launched a new interactive website, managed by the Wear Rivers Trust and ...

Further up the River Wear were Roman forts at Chester-le-Street and Binchester. Four of the anchors found are made from local stone but one is a different material and believed to have come from ...

SUNDERLAND, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that Roman artifacts, including stone anchors fashioned with a single hole, […] ...

Follow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, ... have been recovered from the River Wear. The nets, measuring 10m long and 2m wide, ... England. N. Ireland. Scotland. Wales. In Pictures. BBC Verify.

A new bridge at the mouth of the River Wear in Sunderland is among an £8.7billion transport wishlist drawn up by North East leaders. North East mayor Kim McGuinness has pledged “greener, more ...

Three newly designated "green corridors" in north-east England are aiming to connect town and city-dwellers with nature. The routes in Gateshead, Durham and Teesside have been named by the National ...

It is estimated more than three million tonnes of shipping were built in the yards here, on the nearby River Wear and in other north east yards, from 1914 to 1918.

The Environment Agency officially declared a period of prolonged dry weather in the North East on Tuesday, August 9, but has already been working with Northumbrian Water to tackle the problem of ...