{"id":381503,"date":"2026-01-01T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/381503\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:04:08","slug":"sunderland-to-get-1m-investment-ahead-of-radio-1s-big-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/381503\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland to get \u00a31m investment ahead of Radio 1&#8217;s Big Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Labour politician said: &#8220;We expect the Big Weekend to be worth more than \u00a33.5m to Sunderland and the North East, which is why we&#8217;re happy to back Sunderland in meeting the local cost of bringing the event to the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her office has pledged to put \u00a3495,000 out of a total \u00a3975,000 investment into the event, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McGuinness said it would help build on the region&#8217;s reputation, after it hosted the Mobo and Mercury Awards in Newcastle in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;The money we&#8217;re putting into the Big Weekend will help establish and develop Herrington as a venue for future major events and festivals.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Labour politician said: &#8220;We expect the Big Weekend to be worth more than \u00a33.5m to Sunderland and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-381503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}