Articles...
Mar 13 2007
Travelling at speeds of up to 80mph with his face inches from the ground - that's what the adrenaline-pumping hobby of Chris Dobson involves....
Mar 13 2007
The North-East landscape has changed beyond all recognition in recent years. One of the best known examples, NewcastleGateshead Quayside, is symbolic not just of the physical but also the economic transformation that is taking place in the region....
Mar 13 2007
Exploring the supernatural is all in a day's work for Nicola Ditchburn and Steven Kenny. They tell Sarah Dale about their spooky business, Ghost Investigations....
Mar 13 2007
Corus has unveiled a new range of British-designed and manufactured locomotives - the first of their type for more than 15 years. The steel giant has already commissioned the building of four new locomotives for its Port Talbot site....
Mar 13 2007
Swan Hunter's closure is more bad news for North-East shipbuilding, but marine engineering can still thrive, argues Dr Tony Trapp....
Mar 13 2007
A huge fire could have spelt the end for one North-East company, but it provided the opportunity to rethink the whole business - and another firm isn't content to stay local but is heading for the stars, writes Alastair Gilmour....
Mar 13 2007
One high-profile outcome from a North-East engineering company's investment will be unveiled later this spring....
Mar 13 2007
Chris Roberts, regional director, Learning and Skills Council (LSC) North-East, discusses how the Train to Gain service is taking the region's employers by storm....
Mar 13 2007
Grant support from One NorthEast during the last 12 months will help create 3,765 new jobs and safeguard a further 2,029....
Mar 13 2007
It might only be a small firm, but Hartlepool-based specialist chemical firm Exwold is proof that you don't have to be big to be global. Anastasia Weiner finds out why....
Mar 13 2007
Until recently, The NETA Training Group, one of the country's leading providers of vocational skills training, couldn't find an effective way of examining the potential market arising from the newest EU member states....
Mar 13 2007
Is the region too dependent on grants or are they a vital lifeline to help its economic regeneration? Nigel Stirling reports....
Mar 13 2007
An arts centre is undergoing an £800,000 makeover. Keith Newton went along to find out what it's all about....
Mar 13 2007
When there's no such thing as a pressure-free job, and with stress being a difficult condition to diagnose, many employers frequently ask: `How can stress in the workplace be managed?'...
Mar 13 2007
Electronics you can roll up and put in your pocket. Science fiction is becoming reality at a new research park, writes Iain Laing....
Mar 13 2007
Children are learning that a healthy breakfast can help improve their performance in school. A primary care trust team is visiting schools to introduce children to different ways to start the day. Joanna Desira found out more....
Mar 13 2007
Clown doctors are bringing a smile to children's faces at North-East hospitals. Audrey Forbes reports....
Mar 13 2007
Cels ceo Mike Asher looks at the challenges that lie ahead for the healthcare and life sciences sector and suggests that securing private investment remains a key challenge....
Mar 13 2007
Cels, the Centre of Excellence for Life Sciences, is the organisation funded by regional development agency One NorthEast to support and develop the healthcare and life sciences industry in the region. ...
Mar 13 2007
One of the North-East's biggest tourist attractions, Beamish Museum in County Durham, is set to begin a £40m Vision of the Future strategy to maintain and build on its elevated position as a world-class open air museum. James Barton reports....
Mar 13 2007
More companies are discovering the wealth of prime office space available in the North-East at massive business parks. Iain Laing discovers what lies behind the creation of two of them....
Mar 13 2007
It was yet another shocking blow to the North-East's badly battered mass manufacturing sector when, in March 2005, electronics giant LG Philips announced the closure of its Durham plant with the loss of more than 760 staff....
Mar 13 2007
It's home to 5,000 staff, eight major companies, more than 80 contractors and produces chemicals for products we use day in, day out. But how much do you know about Wilton International?...
Mar 13 2007
Cenamps is bringing to the North-East of England an exciting new process used in manufacturing silicon microchips and plastic electronics. Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) is used to deposit a range of materials as high quality, uniform and dense nano-scale coatings over complex surfaces....
Mar 13 2007
Middlesbrough has come a long way in seven years. More than £248m of investment, hundreds of new jobs, a glorious new art gallery and a modern, vibrant city-style centre - just some of the impressive achievements in which Middlesbrough Town Centre Company can take pride....
Mar 13 2007
The University of Teesside has strengthened its team at the top to support Vice-Chancellor, Professor Graham Henderson, as the Middlesbrough-based University builds on its growing reputation for combining excellence with widening educational opportunities....
Mar 13 2007
Durham 2020 Vision is an ambitious partnership project whose aim is to do just what the name suggests -- create a vision for the centre of North East England's most historic city for the year 2020....
Mar 13 2007
Nearly two years since it was launched in Newcastle, the Asian Business Forum is going from strength of strength. Graeme King talked to president Sunil Khanna....
Mar 13 2007
Kissing competitions and pyjama days have formed part of one North-East company's charity drive, as Alastair Gilmour discovered....
Mar 13 2007
A Northumberland boatbuilder is sailing ahead after making a £600,000 investment. James Barton speaks to managing director Nick Spurr who, with his wife Katie, founded the business 11 years ago....
Mar 13 2007
Teenage entrepreneur Ross Quinn dreams of changing the world. He is 18, his "empire" is expanding rapidly - and it isn't hard to believe that he might just do it. Marie Turbill meets the North-East's budding Branson....
Mar 13 2007
Giovanni Micheletto used to work at what is regarded by many as one of the most glamorous organisations in the world. Today he is in charge of a factory dealing with systems for earth moving equipment. But he could not be happier about this change, as Helen Logan discovered....
Mar 13 2007
Designer style on the home front has never been so big. Karen McLauchlan met the North-East company which is helping house hunters and home owners sample original art for themselves....
Mar 13 2007
Helen Logan takes a look at what else has been happening around the region during the last few months....
Mar 13 2007
A £40m gas import facility is up and running on Teesside. The site at Teesport, which is the world's first dockside regasification port, was visited by Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling who applauded the region's can-do approach to business....
Mar 13 2007
The building of the region's first 50-metre swimming pool is making progress....
Mar 13 2007
A business park project, which could create up to 500 jobs, will add to the renaissance of a Northumberland town....
Mar 13 2007
About 600 jobs are being generated thanks to setting up of a call centre in County Durham....
Mar 13 2007
Northumbrian Water has invested £680,000 to launch an apprenticeship scheme which guarantees a job at the end of it....
Mar 13 2007
A spectacular firework display marked the opening of a major new arts venue in the region....
Mar 13 2007
A £600m bid to overhaul the Metro transport system which spans Tyneside and Wearside has been submitted to Downing Street....
Mar 13 2007
An eco-friendly development in Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham, has moved a step closer with the appointment of a team of experts to prepare a planning application....
Mar 13 2007
Kiersten Wasson, who was recently appointed regional director North-East and Humber for Common Purpose, has gone from studying animal behaviour at university to encouraging individuals to come together and lead the pack towards a brighter future for the region. Sarah Judd reports....
Mar 13 2007
Mark Gallilee is about to realise a life-long ambition to work alongside some of the world's most talented engineers at Nasa. Here, he tells Sarah Judd why, when he is not busy with space missions, he is always happy to be back in the North-East....
Mar 13 2007
A Teesside alternative fuels firm is going from strength to strength and continues to grow with increased production all part of Biofuels Corporation's future plans....
Mar 13 2007
Former chief executive of Wearside-based transport company Arriva, Bob Davies, is the new chairman of the Confederation of British Industry North-East regional council....
Mar 13 2007
Gas. At the flick of a switch, at the turn of a control, it's there. Available to heat our homes, provide hot water and to provide the energy which fuels our businesses. But how does it get to us; what journey does it have to complete before it makes our lives so comfortable?...
Mar 13 2007
Newcastle Science City is an ambitious initiative that will help establish the North-East as a world leading centre for scientific research and commercialisation. ...
Mar 13 2007
A qualification that is the only one of its kind in the UK has been developed by a North-East partnership. The course bridges the vocational skills gap to meet the needs of the rapidly expanding renewable energy industry....
Mar 13 2007
In the early nineties motorists in Middlesbrough's Riverside Park would have barely noticed the regional presence of the World Centre for Materials Technology
.a single ground floor office in the CadCam centre. Today the same establishment takes up a football pitch in area....
Mar 13 2007
The Tees Valley Engineering Partnership (TVEP) is an alliance of directors and senior mangers from engineering companies and public bodies throughout the Tees Valley. The partnership has a single aim - to provide strategic direction ensuring the sustainability of the engineering sector....
Mar 13 2007
By Dermot Roddy Chief Executive, Renew Tees Valley - Helius Energy plc, the first dedicated biomass-to-energy company to list on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), has confirmed that it has acquired an 18-month option on a site adjacent to Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station for one of its first UK plants. ...
Mar 13 2007
You know what they say - "one man's waste is another man's gold"....
Mar 13 2007
A Tees Valley-based team's wealth of skills and expertise in the rapidly expanding renewable energy market is now set to reach out and help firms across the region. And it's hoped the Centre For Process Innovation's latest venture will help scores of local firms attract investment, create new jobs and see new ideas and opportunities grow....
Mar 13 2007
Hexham-based Econnect Construction has recruited six electricians in the last four weeks, in order to handle the company's massive growth and new contract wins in Scotland and the North-East....
Mar 13 2007
A wealth of experience and years of expertise have come together to create Apix Consulting Ltd, a new name which is putting safety, health and environmental consultancy services securely on the map....
Mar 13 2007
Philip Lewis has established a family dynasty by installing his son as the managing director of a business which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. James Barton talks to the man who turned a borrowed £100 into a £12m retail empire employing 250 people....
Mar 13 2007
April sees an increase in the range of rights available to workers with caring responsibilities for both children and adults. Paul Johnstone, employment partner at commercial law firm Robert Muckle LLP, explains the implications....
Mar 13 2007
Natural England is working hard for people, places and nature across our region. And there is plenty going on right across the North-East. Natural England brings together English Nature, the Countryside Agency and the Rural Development Service....
Mar 13 2007
It's the telephone you hope you'll never use. Alastair Gilmour reports on a company's latest development....
Mar 13 2007
A County Durham company is leading the world in its drive to develop the first biodiesel engine to power a top racing car....
