BILL GRAHAM has been named as president of the 3,000-member Northern Society of Chartered Accountants (NSCA).

Mr Graham, of Swainby, North Yorkshire, qualified as a chartered accountant in 1964, and has worked for Procter and Gamble, Laws Stores, in Gateshead, Amos Hinton and Sons, in Stockton, and Victor Products, in Wallsend, North Tyneside.

His last executive post was with County Durham open cast coal and land development company the Banks Group. He retired in 2002.

He has been a council member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales since 2001 and is also a former chairman of the Teesside Society of Chartered Accountants.