[ noun ] a port and industrial city in northeastern England <noun.location>
The Rev. Jim Sunderland, the jails' chaplain, said he wrote the letter and passed it around for inmates to sign.
Nissan car workers in Sunderland, faced with a downturn in production recently, chose to stick to normal working hours for the majority and voluntary redundancy for a small minority.
They claim that the Sunderland yards are among the most modern in Europe and that several foreign companies have approached the government offering to take them over.
The company is part of British Aerospace's Rover vehicles group. Nissan's new investment at Sunderland has been prompted partly by the strength of the Japanese yen.
Lisa Nelson, a junior from Sunderland who helped organize the protest, said students today targeted science classes, which many professors agreed to cancel.
Second division Sunderland went through to the FA Cup final after beating Norwich 1-0 at Hillsborough.
Now, with the government's announcement Dec. 8 that it is closing North East Shipbuilders Ltd., Sunderland's 600-year-old shipbuilding industry has reached its end.
It took direct control of its UK sales and marketing operations in 1992. Nissan also plans to change its vehicle distribution system with the creation of a central vehicle storage centre in Sunderland.
Nissan's Sunderland plant is a main customer; it also supplies Ford, Jaguar and Rover. Tallent was the subject of a management buy-out from the Colston Group three years ago.
A High Court judge refused to free boats impounded by Sunderland council after fishermen refused on principle to pay harbour charges.
He endured repetitive engineering jobs and was made redundant a second time by a Sunderland cranemaker.
In 1890, it was purchased by Mrs. Rose's first husband, William Sunderland, said Peck's wife, Sylvia.
Its developments at Basildon and in Cornwall are fully let, as are the shops in Sunderland town centre and Victoria Station in London.
Police are hunting the strangler of three teenagers whose bodies were found in fires in Sunderland.