PROPOSALS for two Enterprise Zones in the North East will be submitted to Government later this month. While the direct business incentives are relatively modest – certainly more modest than the zones created in the 80s and 90s – there’s a significant opportunity to promote our region to global investors and generate a 25-year income stream to invest in regeneration.Read
IF a week is a long time in politics then the last fortnight has been an era. For the first time in 90 years we have a peacetime coalition Government.Read
THE year 1821 was an auspicious one for the North East. The first Stockton & Darlington Railway Act was drawn up which was “an Act for making and maintaining a railway or tramroad from the River Tees at Stockton to Witton Park Colliery, with several branches there from, all in the County of Durham”.Read
A topic is a keyword or term associated with an article, video or image. The topic describes the item and lets you find all the stories, videos or photos associated with it.
For example an article about Newcastle United could include the tags "Mike Ashley" and "Derek Llambias". Clicking on the tag "Mike Ashley" (next to the article) will bring up all the times we've used that topic on the website.
