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November 10, 2023

Business & Economy

Rewriting staff progression and recruitment

Dozens of business leaders and sector experts attended an event to learn more about the 21C Initiative, which aims to deliver major change across Northumberland’s employment landscape.   Business leaders have added their support to a pioneering employment programme.

October 6, 2021

Business & Economy

Plans approved for Envision AESC’s Wearside electric vehicle battery plant

Planners have approved a blueprint for a “game-changing” electric vehicle battery factory bosses say has the potential to create and support thousands of North East jobs. Envision AESC’s proposals to deliver a production base at the International Advanced Manufacturing Park…

April 8, 2022

Business & Economy

Northumberland College reveals Wansbeck Business Park campus plans

An education provider has unveiled plans to create a new base it says will “transform” its offer to students.

February 28, 2022

Build & Sustainability

Britishvolt drives 3000-job factory plans further forward with EUROBAT partnership

A company behind 8000-job vehicle battery factory plans says it has moved up another gear following a new industry partnership.

September 16, 2020

Business & Economy

Ex-SSI UK workers return to Redcar site – to help deliver Teesworks transformation

Ex-steelmen left redundant after an operator’s collapse have returned to their roots. Six former steelworkers are helping transform SSI UK’s Redcar site into the multi-million-pound Teesworks development. Led by Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen, Teesworks aims to create as many as…

May 19, 2021

Business & Economy

Chaloner Group reveals 131-apartment Middlesbrough development plans

A regeneration firm has revealed plans for a major residential development in a North East town. Chaloner Group hopes to build 131 one and two-bedroom apartments in Middlesbrough. Earmarked for land currently used as a car park in the town’s Corporation…

February 25, 2020

Business & Economy

New office block could transform Newcastle’s Quayside and create space for 1,000 jobs

Plans to transform Newcastle’s skyline with a new office development, set to be built on the city’s Quayside, have been revealed. No. 1 Quayside will be completely different to anything ever seen in the North East and is being hailed…

November 3, 2023

Business & Economy

Labour ‘will get North East building again and end Tory failure’, vows Sir Keir Starmer

Labour will hand “Britain its future back” and end more than a decade of “Tory failure” if it secures power at the next election, the party’s leader has pledged.