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First tours of new business park

COMPANIES in Ashington have had their first chance to tour the town's new £3m business park.Read

Eldon Square bucking national retail trend

ELDON Square Shopping Centre in Newcastle is bucking national retail trends by seeing an increase in the number of visitors to its malls.Read

Staff cut 21 days after plant opens

LIGHTING company Thorn is to cut up to 85 jobs at the £28m County Durham factory it opened this month.Read

Profit-rise insurer to axe jobs

JOBS could go at the Sunderland call centre of insurer Royal Sun Alliance (RSA) despite an increase in annual profits.Read

Northgate talks with bank precautionary

SHARES in van hire specialist Northgate suffered a 43% slide yesterday as the Darlington company said it would have to talk to its bankers to avoid the danger of breaching its banking covenants.Read

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Unique space for creative business

A LISTED Victorian property in Newcastle is being redeveloped into incubator units for businesses.Read

North will come back stronger

TAKE-UP of industrial and distribution space across the North East reached 3,197,190 sq ft last year, a remarkable increase of 128% on figures for the previous year, according to property agents Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH).Read

Site deal gives cats the cream

A NEW rescue centre for Tyneside cats is to be built on land next to the Felling bypass in Gateshead.Read

Engineers in demand, but they're hard to find

THE company behind the design of the world’s biggest ship says it would be happy to hire more staff on Tyneside at the Swan Hunter shipyard but simply can’t find the talent required.Read

'Ground-breaking' new private medical centre

PLANS for a new £32m healthcare centre on the edge of Newcastle have been given the go ahead by North Tyneside Council.Read

Town centre transforms after £30m rebuilding

A £30M regeneration project which has revitalised a flagging town centre will officially open in April.Read

Mill buys German robot firm for nuclear work

AGRICULTURAL and engineering business Carr’s Milling has announced a £5m deal to buy a German company which specialises in robot technology.Read

Oldfield achieves top RICS status

ONE of the best known names in the Newcastle property world has achieved a prestigious new qualification which looks set to be much in demand over the coming months.Read

City centre building is proving popular

A SERVICED office provider has such confidence in the Newcastle marketplace that it is taking an extra floor in Collingwood Buildings in the city centre.Read

Enterprise Court is open for business

BUSINESS leaders were invited to look around a new £3m business park in Northumberland on a specially arranged open day yesterday.Read

Find out if you could make a million

TODAY we launch our fantasy stock market game, Taking Stock. Graeme King speaks to the experts at sponsor Brewin Dolphin to get some tips – and finds out why investing is still a wise move, despite current turmoil.Read

PROUD HISTORY OF TRADING

STOCKS and shares have been traded in the UK for more than 300 years. The London Stock Exchange is one of the world’s oldest and can trace its history back to the coffee houses of 17th-Century London.Read

Signs of hope behind the scenes

THERE appears to be a clear divide in terms of messages emanating from opinion groups on the current challenges being faced by the retail sector.Read

Scott Logic out to impress

NEWCASTLE firm Scott Logic provides the technology that powers Taking Stock.Read

A new dawn for Northern Rock

NORTHERN Rock will today be re-launched as a 'good bank' with around £14bn to boost mortgage lending.Read

Author Profile

Graeme King is a business reporter for The Journal covering stories across the spectrum of North East business, as well as recently developing a specialism in commercial property. He joined the paper in 2001 as a news reporter before moving to the business desk a year later, having started his career on a weekly community paper in Leeds.

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