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Mar 13 2008
A FILM production company is on the verge of breaking the lucrative US market by landing a deal worth up to £250,000....
Mar 13 2008
A FLEDGLING IT firm is expected to triple turnover to £4m by next year after landing an international deal with one of the biggest communications companies on the planet....
Mar 13 2008
THE mother of a soldier killed on duty in Iraq last night criticised the Government for not investing more money into the armed forces sooner....
Mar 13 2008
THE Chancellor announced an extension to the key workers housing scheme....
Mar 13 2008
Darling’s debut Budget gave plenty of lip service to green matters. The Journal’s Environment Editor Tony Henderson tests reaction....
Mar 13 2008
AS Chancellor, Gordon Brown had the happy knack of being lucky. The worst fears of economic soothsayers were never realised on his watch, even when the dotcoms imploded in 2001, and how he loved reminding us....
Mar 13 2008
Standfirst in here...
Mar 13 2008
THE Chancellor restated the Government’s support of the biofuels industry....
Mar 13 2008
Iain Laing...
Mar 13 2008
£60m more for Small Firms Loan Guarantee Scheme....
Mar 13 2008
THE Chancellor’s moves to encourage enterprise yesterday were rather overshadowed by concern about the coming increase in capital gains tax (CGT)....
Mar 13 2008
ONE North East female entrepreneur says the Government must think carefully about how it uses money to encourage women to set up their own businesses....
Mar 13 2008
CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling’s first Budget contained a host of announcements to boost enterprise, cut red tape and help small businesses compete for public sector contracts....
Mar 13 2008
MOVES to slash red tape and help smaller enterprises access lucrative public-sector contracts received a cautious welcome from Claire Harvey....
Mar 13 2008
THE Chancellor’s eagerness to present an environmentally- friendly Budget saw the announcement of millions of pounds for home energy savings....
Mar 13 2008
ALISTAIR Darling’s decision to add 4p to a pint of beer was condemned by John Boyle, the managing director of the Wylam Brewery as “lame” and “illogical”....
Mar 13 2008
THE Chancellor’s announce- ment that he has identified space for an extra 70,000 houses has been welcomed by the construction industry as it looks to recover from a slowdown in the property market....
Mar 13 2008
Dear Alistair,...
Mar 13 2008
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Mar 13 2008
FAMILIES in the North East, as elsewhere, will be forgiven for being vaguely underwhelmed by Mr Darling’s first Budget....
Mar 13 2008
Pages 32&33...
Mar 13 2008
IT might been his first Budget, but it could go down as one of the most boring in history that left MPs dozing and the public yawning....
Mar 13 2008
PARENTS Paul Wright and Ann Callaghan have welcomed this year’s Budget, which they feel has remained in favour of families....
Mar 13 2008
SCOTT Dawson works full time for the Nottingham-based music label Audiotherapy, but as a single person with a mortgage to pay he also freelances from his Newcastle home to make ends meet....
Mar 13 2008
STEVE Reed felt that although Chancellor Alistair Darling had tinkered with green issues, he was merely paying lip service to those who want to see long-term investment in our planet....
Mar 13 2008
LEE and Melisa Marsden married 18 months ago....
Mar 13 2008
PENSIONERS Ernest and Lilian Duncan feel let down by the Budget....
Mar 13 2008
STUDENT Emma Peagam is “relieved” an increase in fuel tax had been postponed until October....
Mar 13 2008
SINGLE working mother Lisa Aynsley was optimistic the Budget would slash the price of commuting to work....
Mar 13 2008
JAMES Butler launched the Newcastle Academy of Bartenders in 2006 and is worried about how the Budget will affect his company’s health....
Mar 13 2008
Adrian Pearson on how the Chancellor talked up the Government’s record on transport – without anything being offered for the North East...
Mar 13 2008
THE Chancellor’s first Budget paved the way for a national road pricing scheme....
Mar 13 2008
BUDGET changes designed to tackle binge drinking have been criticised by all sides. Northumbria Police Chief Michael Craik has dismissed a rise in beer prices as “not significant” and brewers have accused the Chancellor of punishing the majority of responsible drinkers....
Mar 13 2008
ALISTAIR Darling yesterday promised a welfare shake-up to meet a pledge to end child poverty in the UK by 2020....
Mar 13 2008
A NORTH East headmaster last night supported the Chancellor’s decision to put pressure on failing secondary schools....
Mar 13 2008
By Stephen Hall...
Mar 13 2008
Stuart Cottee, partner and head of tax at Deloitte Newcastle, analyses yesterday’s Budget...
Mar 13 2008
A NORTH EAST pensioners leader has slammed Alistair Darling’s first budget as being a “total disaster” for older people....
