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Waste-to-energy plant bosses can't wait to start work

6:00am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

PIERCING changeable skies and withstanding inclement conditions, it once stood like a beacon, a dominant structure overshadowing its environment with ease.

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Could Stockton's 'best kept secret' get today's youngsters off their Xboxes

6:00am Wednesday 15th May 2013

A key component in the global energy industry, 100-year-old engineering company Francis Brown Limited has stood the test of time. Deputy Business Editor Steven Hugill finds out how the family-run company, founded with a shop selling wire rat traps, is now preparing for future growth.

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‘We can handle the big bucks’

2:21pm Thursday 9th May 2013

THE grand unveiling of Lord Andrew Adonis’ economic masterplan for the north of the region saw the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (Lep) hog the regional development spotlight last month. Business Editor Andy Richardson asked Stephen Catchpole, managing director of TVU, what the plans mean for the Tees Valley and if the two Leps are rivals or potential partners.

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North-East stairlift maker, which supplies products across the world, aims to continue rise

6:00am Wednesday 1st May 2013

IT was incessant. Starting slowly, it had built into a crescendo, a perpetual shrill that became just too unbearable to take.

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Should we fly the flag for EU or go it alone?

10:47am Wednesday 24th April 2013

TO steal a line from John Cleese’s character in Monty Python’s The Life of Brian, what has being a member of the EU ever done for us?

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Have passport... will travel

11:12am Wednesday 17th April 2013

THE stamps in Toby Heintz’ passport are enough to make the most hardened traveller shudder. Libya, Iraq, Egypt, Malaysia, Venezuela, the Philippines, and a host of North African and South American countries and many more air miles accumulated over the course of a hectic year.

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Skills revolution at the heart

11:17am Wednesday 10th April 2013

LAST September, the North-East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), with the support of central Government, commissioned a root and branch review of the North-East economy.

Still delivering the goods and much more

11:03am Thursday 4th April 2013

WHEN Arthur Dawson paid £50 for a horse, her shoes and a cart to pull coal around the region, he could never have envisaged the strides his company would make from such humble beginnings.

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We did it first

2:53pm Wednesday 27th March 2013

As Nissan in Sunderland prepares to start production of the UK’s first mass market electric car, we celebrate the achievements of some North-East pioneers and inventors.

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Haulage firm on the road to success

6:00am Wednesday 20th March 2013

When Stan Fraquet founded Fracks Transport 40 years ago, its bank balance stood at just £40. Sheer hard work and determination has since put the company on the road to success. Deputy Business Editor Steven Hugill takes a look behind the scenes.

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