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Nicholas Craig

Nicholas Craig

Nicholas Craig column

The Sports Newcastle charity dinner took place recently. It not only honoured the cream of North-East sports stars but the best of young sporting talent with 13 awards to `Rising Stars'.Read

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Cultivating and keeping entrepreneurs in the North-East is key to our future economic health.Read

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It's always good news to know we have the UK's best among our businesses.Read

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The under-30s are going for broke, it appears.Read

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Surprising Sunderland. Its tourist attractions are winning accolades and its shopping centre is going great guns.Read

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Who invented half-term? Retailers? They should have, given the huge boost to trade provided by youngsters propelling parents through revolving doors towards tinkling tills.Read

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The Chinese Arch at Stowell Street was officially unveiled earlier this week. What a magnificent, flamboyant way in which to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and our strong bonds with the Chinese community in Newcastle.Read

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What a weekend. The glorious riverside location of Labour's spring conference gave Gateshead and Newcastle fantastic national and international press.Read

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Pubs can now apply to stay open all hours of the day and night.Read

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Are you pushed for leisure time? We're used to hearing people say it, but according to Mintel it's a British myth.Read

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Are we being dumbed down? In a week dominated by the results of Big Brother reality TV, is the cult of the celebrity and all things superficial now the order of the day?Read

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Go west! We did, moving to the West End of Newcastle, alongside many new offices, a new hotel, science centre and huge visitor attraction.Read

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A simple walk in Northumberland over Christmas, visiting Craster and Bamburgh's coastline and countryside, brought home the immense luck we have in being able to enjoy the simple things in this region.Read

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Generosity of spirit catches us all by surprise. After the extraordinary events of last week the remarkable response of ordinary people to the tsunami tragedy was amazing - in its speed, its amount and its global reach.Read

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The long-awaited opening of the Sage today is music to my ears. I am delighted that we will all, at last, see inside the extraordinary £70m building which has shimmered into life over the last four years.Read

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A new era of theatres and cinemas is opening in Tyne and Wear. The Sunderland Empire, one of the region's oldest and largest theatres, is back in full voice, reborn after a £4.6m refurbishment and ready to take the thundering roller-skates of Starlight Express.Read

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I instinctively rail against blanket bans. However, in the last few months, I seem to have been submerged in an outpouring of bans, guidelines and instructions on how we should conduct our lives.Read

Everybody has the right to try to reach the top

The furore inspired by Prince Charles's memo mushroomed into a monster over the weekend.Read

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That's the way to do it! A customer service Oscar should be awarded to my local branch of Kwik-Fit, which repaired my tyre free of charge simply because I had to wait for 15 minutes while they finished another job.Read

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New Beijing, Great Olympics" was Beijing's bid motto to host the 2008 Olympic Games.Read

Author Profile

Nicholas Craig is a partner at Watson Burton law firm. Previously one of the leading commercial and corporate law partners with Eversheds Newcastle, Nicholas has particular inward and outward investment expertise. He also has unusually broad experience of acting for clients with interests in the Far East and Asia, and decided to join Watson Burton LLP to broaden the development of his interest in inward and outward investment.

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