MIDDLESBROUGH entrepreneur Jo Hand has revealed plans to expand her £1m recruitment business into a £5m operation by 2011, creating an extra 10-15 jobs.Read
D1 OILS has made 20 Middlesbrough-based staff redundant as heavily subsidised US biodiesel imports have forced it to move overseas to continue biofuel production.Read
THE nationalisation of Northern Rock has added more than £92bn to public debt and breached the Treasury’s sustainable investment rule, according to official estimates today.Read
FEARS of mounting inflation appear to have outweighed those of slowing economic growth in the Bank of England’s near unanimous decision to keep interest rates steady this month.Read
AN IT consultant is celebrating after winning a major contract with a housing firm that will see it bring together 4,000 people from 500 locations.Read
THE FTSE 100 Index recovered some of its lost ground yesterday after the steep fall of almost 3% on Tuesday as investors took flight at the unsettling news that oil had passed the $130 a barrel level.Read