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An accessible washroom supplier is working with Teesside University to help develop students’ skills and knowledge. NYMAS has welcomed interns Joseph Taylor, Mohammed Ouidir and Jamaal Baksh. The trio will spend six weeks with the business, based in Billingham, near Stockton. Second-year mechanical…

Labour must create “a stronger, fairer North East” following its landslide election victory, regional business bosses have urged. Leaders have called on Sir Keir Starmer’s party to act decisively to “move the region forward and support…

Kim McGuinness is the new North East mayor. The Labour candidate secured more than 185,000 votes to beat independent Jamie Driscoll to the flagship devolution title. The former Northumbria police and crime commissioner will now…

Newcastle City Council has so far paid out £32.3 million in business support grants to help local traders through the coronavirus pandemic. More than 2500 businesses have received grant payments worth £10,000 or £25,000 from the council to help protect…

North Tyneside Council has outlined plans to ensure people can move around the borough safely and support businesses to be able to reopen. Part of its ‘Ambition for North Tyneside’, the council has set out a vision to create vibrant,…

Blyth-based robotics company, Tharsus, has announced the development of Bump – a new, cutting-edge technology system designed to help keep people safe in the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bump’s technology uses wearable and static devices that communicate with one another…

         

From pioneering patriarchs Stephenson and Hudson to the radical regression of Beeching, the Leamside Line is bookended by no little revolution. Throughout its near 200-year history, the 21-mile route’s capricious narrative – from passenger travel boom…