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Feb 1 2008
IN THE regional portfolio, pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline confirmed that vaccine Synflorix has been accepted for review by the EU regulators....
Feb 1 2008
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....
Feb 1 2008
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....
Feb 1 2008
CALLS for a windfall tax on oil companies have been reignited after Royal Dutch Shell posted record UK company profits of almost £14bn....
Feb 1 2008
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....
Feb 1 2008
A LETTER of intent is what it says – a letter from an employer of their intention to enter into a contract in the future....
Feb 1 2008
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 sector...
Feb 1 2008
LONDON’S blue-chip share index has suffered one of its worse beginnings to a year since it was launched 24 years ago....
Feb 1 2008
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....
