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Gateshead entrepreneur promotes hospice charity event

AN ENTREPRENEUR is using her business to promote a charity event run by the hospice that cared for her mother during her final days.Read

Call for grants to help launch new businesses

THERE are fresh calls for a grant scheme that helps jobless people get their business ideas off the ground to be extended.Read

COLUMN: Neil Warwick - Comply with latest red tape rulings

COMPLIANCE is a big issue for a number of companies. Even identifying what compliance means and defining what it covers can provoke heated debate. It also gets swept up in the whole debate over too much red tape in this country.Read

Dad launches Ellwoods Horticultural Services

A HORTICULTURIST who spent almost two decades working at flagship gardens and garden centres around the region has started his own business after being made redundant.Read

Sunderland woman set to make cake business full-time

AN NHS admin worker is preparing to give up her full-time job and take her part-time cake business full time.Read

UK banks urged to support exporters

BANKS are being encouraged to step up to the plate and support small firms in their export ambitions.Read

Specialist recruiting agency for ex-forces

A SPECIALIST recruitment agency for people leaving the armed forces is expanding to cope with demand.Read

Regional divide poses a problem for smaller firms

NORTHERN small firms say the cost of energy and access to decent broadband services are the top business infrastructure issues they are currently facing.Read

Social media benefits for North East small food firms

USING the internet to make the most of small food businesses has been coming under the spotlight in County Durham and Northumberland.Read

Small firms struggle on public sector contracts

GOVERNMENT efforts to make it easier for small businesses to win public-sector contracts are not yet bearing fruit, according to research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).Read

Violet Interiors offers a design diagnosis for sellers

AN enterprising interior designer is aiming to help people sell their homes in the shortest possible time.Read

North East small firms are urged to work together to cut costs

SMALL firms are being advised to work together to save on overheads and the cost of raw materials.Read

COMMENT: James Wilders - Justifying an enforced retirement

IN THE last week, the Supreme Court has handed down an important judgment dealing with age discrimination.Read

Watson Burton's annual profits fall

ONE of the North East’s leading law firms Watson Burton has suffered a further annual fall in income, profits and staff numbers.Read

By Gina proves an instant hit with Dragons' Den panelist Theo Paphitis

A NORTH Shields-based firm received a business boost from Theo Paphitis, the entrepreneur and panelist on the BBC’s Dragons’ Den television series.Read

Late payment culture is blighting smaller firms in the UK

THE late payment culture is putting the very survival of some small firms in question, according to a report into the issue.Read

COLUMN: Frank Orr - Planning case raises issue of when a challenge should be made

DICKINSON Dees recently won a high-profile planning case for its client, The Manydown Company, in which Basingstoke Council was ruled to have acted ‘unlawfully’.Read