IN six weeks' time, history will be made in Redcar when the town’s famous blast furnace is re-ignited by the steel plant's new owners - giant Thai firm SSI.Read
YOU can imagine how the North East delegates at the Conservative Party conference will have been received this week when they raised concerns over the lack of a ‘level playing field’ when it comes to attracting inward investment.Read
GIVEN his impressive achievements during his short spell at the helm of the newly-nationalised Northern Rock, it’s no surprise that Gary Hoffman seems poised to re-emerge on the scene as a major force in British banking.Read
IT SEEMS odd to be hailing a 0.2% growth in GDP for the three months to June 30 as good news but, considering the gloomy forecasts, the figures could certainly have been a lot worse.Read
THE appointment of John Rundle as the interim director of Newcastle Science City will bring a sense of stability to the project in the wake of Dr Peter Arnold’s abrupt departure from the top job.Read
THE chances of an interest rate rise later in the year have certainly heightened in wake of publication of Bank of England governor Mervyn King's letter to Chancellor George Osborne yesterday.Read
CONSIDERING the heated debates and the fall-outs that proceeded it, the announcement that the North East had been granted its second Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) passed relatively unheralded last week.Read
TYNESIDE-BORN filmmaker Martin Durkin has been criticised before for making "misleading" documentaries, so we should hardly be surprised that his latest effort offered a somewhat distorted view of the North East.Read
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