A chance tobeaTV detective

Budding detectives are being offered the chance of showing off their skills in a new TV show.

Glasgow-based STV Studios are making a new television series for Channel 4 called Murder Island and are looking that people from Sunderland to register and take part.

Casting assistant producer Georgina McKenzie said: “The series involves solving a murder mystery and we are looking for pairs of people to put their detectives skills to the test and solve the case.

"The ‘detectives’ will have a range of police resources at their disposal – pathologists, forensic scientists and psychologists – and will be competing to see if they can be the first to identify the suspect and bring them to justice.”

To find out more details and apply go to www.murderisland.co.uk

Police are treating a car fire as ‘unexplained’ as an investigation into the incident in Ryhope is launched.

Emergency services were called to Black Road, in Ryhope, on Sunday evening to reports of a car alight in the street.

Police have now confirmed they are investigating the incident to determine the cause of the fire and if any criminal offences have been committed.

Firefighters from Farringdon Community Fire Station attended at 7.45pm and had extinguished the flames and left the scene in under 15 minutes.

A Northumbria Police spokesperson said: “Emergency services attended and the fire was extinguished. Nobody was injured. The cause of the fire is currently being treated as unexplained.”