Region steeling itself for what future holds

MANUFACTURING: Sparks fly at Tata Steel

4:18pm Wednesday 22nd May 2013

THESE are turbulent times for one of the region’s iconic heavy industries. The future of the Teesside steel sector could become a lot clearer in the coming weeks.

Once again, it's gotta be you Vince

Business Secretary Vince Cable

11:03am Wednesday 15th May 2013

IT is great to hear that Hitachi's plans for its Newton Aycliffe train factory includes a research and development department.

Making most of limited resources

TVU managing director Stephen Catchpole

2:59pm Thursday 9th May 2013

THE Tees Valley Unlimited Local Enterprise Partnership (Lep) has a pretty good track record for attracting investment to our region.

A nation of promiscuous pie eaters

10:39am Wednesday 1st May 2013

THE recent GDP expansion failed to resolve the are we/aren’t heading for triple-dip recession argument.

The ups and downs of life in business

10:41am Wednesday 24th April 2013

IT has been quite a week for industry on Teesside. The announcement that Sita UK and Sembcorp UK had won a £1.2bn contract to build a waste-to-energy plant was, quite rightly, met with great acclaim and celebration.

Thatcherism - was it worth it?

Elvis Costello's song Shipbuilding spoke out against Margaret Thatcher's industrial policy

6:57pm Tuesday 9th April 2013

"IS it worth it?" The first four words of Elvis Costello's elegy to the dignity of labour summed up many worker's response to the economic policy of Margaret Thatcher.

Business is a family affair

11:41am Thursday 4th April 2013

A TRANSPORT business that once relied on the efforts of Dina, a coal-carrying cart horse are celebrated in a business feature.

Toasting Nissan with champagne

Nissan unveils new car to be made in the North-East

2:10am Friday 29th March 2013

THE pioneering achievements of Nissan's Sunderland plant were the hottest industrial story in Europe yesterday.

Airport faces anxious wait

Passengers arrive at Durham Tees Valley Airport.

10:12am Wednesday 27th March 2013

THE deadline for bids to the latest round of Regional Growth Fund (RGF) went unnoticed last Wednesday.

Is Osborne the right man for the job?

OPEN LETTER: Chancellor George Osborne during a visit to Hareema, in Hartlepool, last year. Construction bosses in the North-East are calling on Mr Osborne to support jobs in the region

7:50pm Wednesday 20th March 2013

GEORGE Osborne is fortunate that he doesn't work for the trigger happy bosses of Blackburn Rovers who this week sacked their third manager of the season.

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