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Some of the UK’s leading voices in women’s enterprise have come together in a new report to say that current Government policy has failed to recognise the additional challenges faced by millions of women-led businesses. As the Government and local…

Surgo Construction (Surgo), one of the region’s leading building contractors, has been appointed to a facilities refurbishment project at the Dräger Safety UK site in Blyth, which engineers safety technology.

Turning things around It’s been quite the few weeks for Rishi Sunak. Fined for breaking lockdown rules he helped create, and with his wife’s tax affairs jarring markedly against his position as the man charged with dragging the UK out of…

National digital infrastructure platform, CityFibre, has announced a three-year recruitment and training programme to provide up to 10,000 people with jobs upgrading the UK’s digital infrastructure to full fibre. The Government has made the nationwide deployment of full fibre by…

Plans have been submitted to the local council to transform the former site of Durham Baths into a £75 million business school. Durham University wants to construct the new building at Elvet Waterside, on the site of the city’s old…

Jamie Driscoll has been elected the first ever mayor of the North of Tyne after voters from Newcastle, Northumberland and North Tyneside chose the Labour and Co-operative party candidate ahead of Charlie Hoult (Conservative), John Appleby (Liberal Democrat), John…

Having secured a third term as Tees Valley mayor, Ben Houchen is now rolling out a refreshed blueprint for the south of the region. Here, he tells Steven Hugill about the headline elements of his plan, which include a new hospital, an investment zone earmarked to create more than 2000 jobs and further development of Teesside International Airport.

A new, fully-funded leadership programme, created to help SMEs build resilience, tackle the challenges they’re facing during COVID-19, and drive future growth, is now underway with its first cohort from across the North East. Supported by the Department for Business,…