Around a fifth of mortgage customers of Newcastle-based Northern Rock face the prospect of negative equity next year as house prices slump, it has been reported.Read
LORD Stevens, the former Metropolitan Police commissioner, has revealed his ambitious expansion plans for a North East security business after buying a stake in the company.Read
TEESSIDE engineering firms eager to supply the green energy sector have been flooding into the London HQ of MGT Power - the firm behind plans to bring one of the biggest biomass plants in the UK to Teesport.Read
A CRAFTY company is sewing up the market for hand-knitted period stage costumes. Socks made by the Almost Unwearoutable Company are currently treading the West End boards on the feet of Jeremy Irons in his role as former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.Read
MIDDLESBROUGH’S Barker & Stonehouse is set to change the face of furniture retailing with a pioneering green scheme that sets out to help both the environment and the people of Indonesia.Read
THE economic slowdown is biting deep into business confidence across the North East but the regional picture is not as bleak as many other parts of the UK, according to the CBI.Read
THE outlook for commodities? Investors will have taken a pounding this year on the back of turbulent market conditions, but some of their pain will have been soothed if they have had oil and commodity stocks, the latest “in vogue” investments.Read
