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February 11, 2019

Business & Economy

FreeAgent to be headline sponsor of Newcastle Startup Week 2019

Edinburgh-based FreeAgent has been announced as the new Headline Sponsor of Plan Digital’s 5-day Newcastle Startup Week festival in May 2019 and monthly Founders’ Friday events from May onwards! FreeAgent is a multi-award winning online accounting system specifically designed to…

July 23, 2020

Business & Economy

Innovative app helps users stay safe as lockdown restrictions ease

A North East software development company has created an innovative app to support the continued need for physical distancing as the country comes out of lockdown. Stockton-based Sapere Software is launching Quevel – a mobile app that shows the user…

August 16, 2018

Business & Economy

Teesside University helps find dynamic solutions for Internet of Things company

An Internet of Things company has been helped to develop innovative products and explore new markets, thanks to support from Teesside University. Transmission Dynamics, based in Cramlington, Northumberland, says the help from University staff has enabled it to access Innovate…

May 15, 2024

Ideas & Observations

Roundtable: How can the North East capitalise on devolution?

With Kim McGuinness elected to lead the north of the region’s devolution power grab, attention now turns to rolling out the measures needed to catalyse landmark economic and social change. Here, in the second of a…

June 7, 2023

Arts & Culture

New enchanted light trail to open in Newcastle this November

Lighting up the iconic Leazes Park like never before, a brand new immersive light trail is coming to Newcastle city centre this Christmas. ‘Northern Lights Newcastle’ will enthral visitors with a stunning after-dark attraction of immersive visuals, audio and jaw-dropping…

January 11, 2018

Business & Economy

City skyscraper enabled by founder of Newcastle’s Chinatown

The man credited with being the founder of Newcastle’s Chinatown has now enabled the creation of a second landmark through selling the site of the city’s impending skyscraper to its developer Peter Cheng, who opened the first Chinese business on…

July 24, 2024

Arts & Culture

Newcastle University student to cycle from Manchester to Newcastle to raise funds for live music venue

Ben Reid will be cycling from Manchester to Newcastle on a child’s bike, complete with stabilisers, to raise funds for Cobalt Studios. Cobalt Studios is a not for profit, community venue in Newcastle that offers a home for artists…

October 27, 2022

Business & Economy

Hay & Kilner launches rebrand as it moves into new headquarters

Leading North East law firm Hay & Kilner has unveiled a brand new look after moving into its new state-of-the-art headquarters. The independent practice, which celebrated its 75th anniversary last year, has taken over the whole of the fifth floor…