With Red Nose Day taking place on Friday, March 13, 2020, we thought we would pay tribute to the borough’s efforts over the last 30 years to raise cash for both Comic Relief and Sport Relief. Remember you can buy copies of these and all our staff pictures by logging here.
1. 2007: Seeing red..............
.......at Westoe Primary School Photo: TR Shields Gazette
2. 2009: A cut above
Relax and Glow salon staff dress up in Cleadon in 2009 for Red Nose Day. Photo: SN Shields Gazette
3. 2003: Perfect harmony
Teacher Rob Coulson and pupils raise money at Jarrow School. Photo: IB Shields Gazette
4. 1988: Fall guys and girls
Gazette reporter Graham Simpson, front, with his fellow Comic Relief stuntmen and woman, ready to abseil off the 140ft high Wilkinson Court. Photo: Shields Gazette