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July 5, 2019

Business & Economy

UK’s first maritime innovation hub opens at Port of Tyne

A new maritime research and development hub has been opened at the Port of Tyne in South Shields by the Secretary of State for Transport, The Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP. The centre, named the “2050 Innovation Hub”, is the…

October 24, 2022

Ideas & Observations

Q&A: Sara Andrews, tax partner at Haines Watts

Introduce yourself? I’m Sara, born and bred in Belfast, and I head up our Haines Watts Tax Incentives and Reliefs offering in Newcastle. I have a lovely Geordie fiancé and a step-daughter who is 12 going on 21. I left Belfast…

October 13, 2016

Business & Economy

£2m Port of Blyth training centre opens

Once famous for coal, the port is now a leading offshore energy base in the North East and has this week opened the doors to a £2m training centre designed to prepare the UK port services, offshore and renewable…

April 9, 2019

Business & Economy

Northumbria University academic and psychologist gives insight into Hollywood film

A Northumbria University academic and child psychologist has given his expert opinion on a psychodrama film starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, which sees her form an obsessive and predatory relationship with a kindergarten student. “The Kindergarten Teacher” has had screenings at Sundance…

September 20, 2019

Business & Economy

Teesside, Durham and Sunderland universities get £3 million enterprise zone boost

Three North East universities have received more than £3 million to strengthen ties with business and deliver fresh economic growth to the region. Teesside University, Durham University and the University of Sunderland will use the funding to create enterprise zones. Bosses…

December 2, 2021

Business & Economy

Students cement building blocks of careers

Students at Middlesbrough College are quite literally building their own futures as they get hands-on with a multi-million-pound project to enhance their campus.

March 1, 2022

Business & Economy

Provincial Seals launches new training site to create more career opportunities

An insulation products firm has updated its training base. Provincial Seals has revamped its site in Birtley. Bosses say the move allows the company to offer better training courses at larger capacities. Established in the 1990s, Provincial Seals supplies the construction industry with energy…

November 14, 2022

Business & Economy

Scores of students celebrate at prestigious graduation ceremony

Ambitious college graduates are set to embark on their dream careers following a prestigious graduation ceremony at Middlesbrough’s historic Town Hall. 170 higher education students from Middlesbrough College celebrated with friends and family as they picked up university level qualifications…