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Storage firm beats recession

AS the UK emerges from its longest recession since the war, 1st Storage Centres, with sites in Newcastle and Gateshead, is celebrating a successful year after the family run business turned the recession into a positive business opportunity.Read

Find some space at home with a timely spring clean

IT'S time to put away those big jumpers and cumbersome coats, but put them where? Paul Taylor of Fergy Space in Cramlington has the solution.Read

Get the best from work

MC WARE in Stokesley is launching a new aspect to its business services to help local companies improve their use of computer technology and software.Read

NORTH-EAST employers are to benefit from an extra £8 million this year aimed at improving the skills of their workers and helping them through the recession.

The new funding, from the European Social Fund (ESF) through the Train to Gain service, is aimed at helping people in work improve their skills and qualifications right through from basic maths and English to higher level skills.Read

SIXTY drivers at a Teesside business are celebrating achieving top marks for an accredited qualification.

As part of its commitment to staff development, senior management of North Eastern Tyre and Exhausts (NETE), which boasts 23 retail outlets and six wholesale depots across the region, invited the group to complete an NVQ Level two in Delivery and Carrying Goods.Read

A ‘SCIENCE whiz’ is giving young people in the North-east a voice after becoming a young ambassador and regional board member of sectors skills body, the National Skills Academy Process Industries.

Pharmacology honours graduate Mhairi Anderson, 27, has joined the board with the aspiration of encouraging more young people to take up careers in the process industries.Read

WORKPLACES nationwide stand to benefit following the creation of a brand new Biscuit Bursary, from Fox’s Biscuits.

The new scheme aims to keep workers’ blues at bay – by awarding those companies most deserving of a biscuity boost with a bumper supply of Fox’s finest biscuits.Read

IN THE LINE OF FIRE

A PIONEERING college course designed to train a new generation of security professionals is set to give potential students a taste of life protecting celebrities and VIPs.Read

David McPherson

Flexibility is the key to firms' success

THE recent cold period illustrated to a large number of firms in the region that they need to improve their access to their business applications in the event of a disaster to maintain efficient operations.Read

Disaster management is key to avoiding disruption

SOME people debate for hours whether it will be a fire, flood, strike, swine flu, burglary or computer virus that stops them trading.Read

City solicitors Muckle find security in a virtual world

DISASTER recovery and business continuity are often perceived as being very costly. This is no longer necessarily the case, and there is nothing like a good local example to make the point.Read

Why you should consider an independent consultancy

DURING tough economic times when everyone is trying to sell you something, organisations are simply in danger of buying from the company that has the best sales representative, which has all the obvious dangers.Read

By DAVID LUCAS, partner with BHP Law, right

THE franchise sector generates an annual turnover of over £10bn and banks which have specialist franchising departments report they are still keen to lend to people taking on a franchised business, as it is seen as less risky than an entirely new venture.Read

Step out to new start

BUDDING entrepreneurs are being offered the opportunity to win a year’s office space at Darlington’s prestigious Lingfield Point business park.Read

Time to take chance

AMERICAN TV Dragon Doug Richard believes the North-east has some of the best opportunities for entrepreneurs right now.Read

Flagship named as Teesbeacon for IT support

A TEES Valley science park has been described as a flagship for the region in an independent survey of the Information Communications Technology (ICT) support it offers businesses.Read

Award wins breed success

NORTH-east based property developer Python Properties is celebrating after completing even more lettings in its award-winning redevelopment, The Cooperative Building.Read

Decision due on park growth plan

HARTLEPOOL Council is considering the finer details of Wynyard Park’s plans for continued development and job creation.Read

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Sheila Tindle, senior divisional director, Brewin Dolphin

“I’d welcome lots more information. The more people know, the more people can get behind projects.”Read