Oct
2007
Articles from 31st Oct 2007
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Looking forward to the future
Oct 31 2007 | Business News
‘It’s grim up North’ is hardly a phrase I’d expect to hear these days amongst a region thriving with award-winning businesses, great universities, a buzzing social scene and exciting regeneration developments. So it came as a huge shock to turn on the TV the other week, only to hear one of our region’s main towns – Middlesbrough – being condemned as the worst place to live in the UK. Read
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STC looks at expansion
Oct 31 2007 | Business News
ACOMPANY that provides teachers to the region’s schools believes the move towards a two-tier education system will help double the size of its operations. Read
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Creative sector is enjoying a boom period
Oct 31 2007 | Business News
MORE than 9,000 new jobs are expected to be created in the region’s commercial creative industry in the next five years after the sector has experienced strong growth. Read
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Youth skills organisation winding up
Oct 31 2007 | Business News
AN organisation formed to retain skilled young workers in the region is being wound up. Aspire was created in 2004 with the aim of stopping the brain drain of talented North-Easterners to the South. Read
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Brothers lay plans to expand egg business
Oct 31 2007 | Business News
POULTRY FARMERS Stephen and Richard Tulip are laying down plans to expand the region’s biggest egg production business. Read
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Big Four share the shoppers
Oct 31 2007 | Business News
IT IS virtually impossible for one supermarket to form a monopoly, a retail research body has said, as the Competition Commission prepares to release its preliminary findings into the grocery market. Read
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US mortgage crisis claims banking jobs and profits
Oct 31 2007 | Business News
INVESTMENT bank UBS has warned of further write-downs amid the fall-out from the US sub-prime mortgage crisis as it posted its first quarterly loss in nine years. Read
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Legions of jobs for Wall
Oct 31 2007 | Business News
THE organisation created a year ago to promote and maintain Hadrian’s Wall has pledged to help create 2,000 jobs by 2012 despite dwindling visitor numbers. Read
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Power plant plan fromHelius ‘in final stages’
Oct 31 2007 | Business News
PLANS by a Teesside renewable energy company to build a green power plant have reached their final stages. Read
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Compensate workers
Oct 31 2007 | Business News
A HEALTH and beauty company is facing legal action after unions claimed there was a lack of consultation over the closure of its Tees Valley distribution centre. Read
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Property is still strong
Oct 31 2007 | Business News
HOUSE price growth remained robust during October with prices rising by 1.1% despite weakening demand, figures showed today. Read
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AEI workers to vote on industrial action
Oct 31 2007 | Business News
WORKERS have seen their final salary pension scheme axed – shortly after being taken over by new owners. Staff at Gateshead firm AEI Cables are now set to ballot for industrial action after rejecting a 2% pay offer. Read
