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£1.5m block a boost for science

A £1.5M IT and science block has opened at a North-east school - with help from finance experts on Teesside. Read

A great example

A TEESSIDE apprentice has been praised for his outstanding skills by Gordon Brown and named as a great example to young people. Read

ONE of the joys of using new technology is the insight it gives you into the finance sector of West Africa.

There was me, just worrying about my mortgage and the final size of my magnificent pension, until I got on to email. Now, it seems, the old park bencher is the first person every high ranking bank official from Mali to Mombasa thinks of first if he has to quietly get rid of lots of embarrassing millions of Ugandan Shillings, Angolan Kwanza or Swazi Lilangeni. Read

£1bn from us to US...

HE MIGHT BE teetering on the verge of recession, but Uncle Sam remains the Tees Valley’s biggest export customer. Read

Buisness getting choppy stateside for Cambridge Research Biochemicals

ALMOST 100% of Cambridge Research Biochemicals’ products go overseas. Read

IVAs and bankruptcy explained

QI have built up so much debt that I cannot afford to pay it all back. Shall I go bankrupt or shall I enter into a voluntary arrangement? Read

Be prepared to travel - Americans don’t like leaving home

Think global, act local: US companies still prefer to deal with their own kind... get a presence if you can Read

Laying down a challenge in the Coke kingdom

GUY WOODALL of Eaglescliffe’s Thorncroft drinks employed a UKTi “virtual export manager” to help him break into the Coke kingdom with his all natural, Healthy Thirst fizzy juices. Read

UK playing catch-up

THE GOVERNMENT must be prepared to make massive investment in the construction industry if it is to achieve its target of making all new homes carbon neutral by 2016, a leading architect will warn tonight. Read

Same ...but a world apart!

“WE both speak English, but it’s a different English and sometimes it can be worlds apart,” says Lesley Moody, co-founder of Billingham-based AES Ltd, which was helped into the US market by UKTi North-east and recently cemented its presence there with a $100,000 contract. Read

How vision can transform your business

LAST week we talked about the common characteristics shared by companies successful in international markets: vision, commitment, focus, research, planning, training, relationship building, quality, adaptation and energy. Read

Beware danger signals ahead

LAWYERS and fleet management experts are urging Tees bosses to review their company car policies ahead of new legislation which will make firms liable if staff are involved in an accident. Read

The facts

EIGHT million employees use their own or company cars to drive on work business. Read

If you want to be in America...

THEY still insist on pounds and ounces and they’ve never learned how to spell “colour”, but if you strike a business deal with an American, you’ve pretty much got a contract for life - which is a comforting thought as the Federal Bank wrestles with imminent recession. Read

Housing contracts won

A MIDDLESBROUGH company is celebrating securing a series of contracts supporting the provision of affordable homes in the Tees Valley area. Read

Snapping up units

INDUSTRIAL space at a key Middlesbrough industrial estate has been snapped up as part of a Teesside firm’s expansion plans. Read

Lawyers inmove fromtowncentre

COLES Solicitors has moved to purpose built premises on Northallerton's Thurston Road, following a trend in professional services relocating to more staff-friendly locations. Read

Share your storieswith our readers

EVERYONE has a story to tell – from the “Good Old Days” of their generation to fond recollections of events which could rekindle the memories of others. Read

IT goes without saying that no one really wants tidings of a death.

Having said that, we all go with mixed feelings from those around us. How many times have you heard a eulogy to the dear departed that emphasised the positive and ignored the negative? Plenty of times, I guess. Read

Adecco Premier launched in Middlesbrough

ADECCO, the world’s leading recruitment agency has launched Adecco Premier in Middlesbrough to provide the area with a new style professional recruitment branch to source local jobs for local people. Read