The biggest climbers on the day were Carphone Warehouse – which climbed 24.5p to 328.75p – and BG Group which saw its share price jump 5.26% – an increase of 55p to 1099p.Read
ONE of the country’s leading economists has called for the return of enterprise zones as a means of helping the North-East achieve its target of developing more than 20,000 business in the next eight years.Read
CHRIS Dent finished his apprenticeship with Nissan last May and has been working at the Washington plant ever since. He is employed on the die-maintenance pressing machine, maintaining the tools that press the car panels.Read
Car giant Nissan gave the North-East economy a huge shot in the arm yesterday as it announced plans to create 1200 new jobs in the region. Andrew Mernin finds out why the Japanese firm is bucking the trend of bad-news stories for the UK’s manufacturing sectorRead
FAST-GROWING construction company Surgo has started work on the £8m renovation of the Whitley Bay Playhouse as part of its efforts to increase its turnover by 30% this year.Read
