The station was, in November 2007, presented with a plaque by hardware chain B&Q as part of their annual "You Can Do It" awards, resulting in £5,000 of funding to fully construct a second studio and improve the station's primitive facilities. The second studio was completed shortly thereafter. The station also during this period had its transmission equipment stolen, resulting in two off-air stints in December 2007 and March 2008, the latter of which was covered as the headline story on local news programme "North East Tonight" later that day.