AN entomologist who worked as a speech writer for former Conservative Party leader Michael Howard has joined a regional legal practice in an expansion of its employment law team.Read
RETAIL sales stalled this month as wage freezes and rising bills hurt household incomes, squeezing sales of clothes and shoes in particular, new figures showed.Read
THE Government has brought in a temporary and limited emergency relaxation in driver hour regulations to deliver feed supplies to livestock farms to make sure essential deliveries get through during the current extreme winter weather.Read
LAW firm Ward Hadaway has advised aerial work platform maker Tanfield Group plc on a £2.1m conditional placing on the AIM market of London Stock Exchange.Read
CAPITAL Shopping Centres has become the first corporate donor to the Give2 Gateshead and Give2 Newcastle Funds at the Community Foundation to reflect the local presence of the Metrocentre and Eldon Square shopping centres.Read
BURGLARS, boom-times and building housing estates are among a host of memories for two stalwart estate agents who have just clocked up a total of 60 years in the industry.Read
GVA and fellow agents in Newcastle have for the last few years expressed their concerns about maintaining commercial development momentum both in Newcastle and across the region.Read
WHEN I began working as a journalist in Aberdeen in the mid-2000s there was much soul-searching taking place in the Granite City, so-called after the sparkling grey and silver rock which dominates the cityscape.Read
ENERGY management company Energy Solutions Group (ESG), which has an office in Gateshead, has acquired the Evolve group of companies which significantly expands the reach and scale of its services.Read
DESIGN students at Newcastle College have entered the world of commerce by designing and making coffee sets, which they will sell in one of Newcastle’s more exclusive gift shops.Read
NEWCASTLE firm Nomad Digital, which sells wireless services to the transport sector, has bought the assets and contracts of Inova Multimedia, a German provider of information, entertainment and CCTV on public transport.Read
MORE than a dozen jobs have been saved with the sale of Merchant House Financial Services, which has operations in Seaham and Newcastle, after it collapsed into administration.Read
HIS passion has always been punk and now radio presenter and publicity professional Keith Newman is using his expertise to promote North East musicians.Read
Iain Laing has been business editor for four years. He started his ncjMedia career as a Durham district reporter in 2000. He has served as a reporter at the Evening News in Edinburgh and the Northern Echo in Darlington.
