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Jobs at risk as plant is threatened with closure

10:24am Tuesday 9th February 2010

A FACTORY producing makeup brushes is threatened with closure, with the loss of more than 130 jobs.

New law to focus on data safety

10:25am Tuesday 9th February 2010

ORGANISATIONS are being advised to address any data protection issues before April, or face fines of up to half-a-million pounds.

US army hopes for electric car manufacturer

10:34am Tuesday 9th February 2010

AN electric vehicle manufacturer is to trial fuel cell technology that could double its vehicles’ range and potentially sell trucks to the US military.

‘DVD vending machines will be big hit in the UK’

10:40am Tuesday 9th February 2010

A TECHNOLOGY developed more than 100 years ago could inspire the high-tech sector in the UK this year.

Passion for brass paid off with career change

TAKING HIS TIME: Geneva Instruments founder Tim Oldroyd in his workshop

10:47am Tuesday 9th February 2010

MUSICIANS performing alongside some of the world’s biggest stars are using instruments made by a company that started life in a garden workshop.

Car insurance premiums can cause headache for motorists

11:08am Tuesday 9th February 2010

APART from the fact that they drive large vehicles, often at slow speeds along twisting roads with impatient drivers trailing in their wake, are farmers really entitled to enjoy better quality motor insurance than the rest of us?

Business leaders’ report warns Government of likely ‘oil crunch’

11:09am Tuesday 9th February 2010

BRITISH companies in sectors from transport to retail could be hit by an “oil crunch” to match the present financial crisis within five years, business leaders including Sir Richard Branson are warning.

Taking to the floor for free rent

THUMBS UP: John Orchard, director of Marchday, right, and Alastair MacColl, chief executive of Business and Enterprise North-East, are judged by Lingfield Point occupiers Caroline Walker and Jamie Collis

10:36am Tuesday 9th February 2010

ENTREPRENEURS are being offered the chance to win a year’s free business accommodation to get their company off the ground.

R3 experts fear more economic gloom

10:33am Tuesday 9th February 2010

EXPERTS from five of the region’s leading law firms will meet to discuss the future of the business insolvency regime this week at a members-only event hosted by the North-East section of insolvency trade body R3.

‘No blame in divorce’

CALL FOR CHANGE: Judith Middleton

10:32am Tuesday 9th February 2010

A FAMILY law expert has called on changes to the divorce laws to remove blame from the situation.



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