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May 28, 2024

Business & Economy

Newcastle Airport invests £20 million ahead of busy summer season

Newcastle Airport is expecting to welcome over 3.5 million passengers this summer. The airport has been preparing for the upcoming summer season and significant increase in passenger numbers, with over £20m worth of investments including a new security search…

January 5, 2024

Build & Sustainability

Q&A: James Longfield, director and lead architect at Northern Bureau for Architecture

For our readers who aren’t familiar, can you please introduce yourselves and briefly describe your role at Northern Bureau for Architecture? Northern Bureau for Architecture is a small design and research-led architecture practice rooted in the…

January 7, 2024

Ideas & Observations

Moving the dial on female funding

As recent findings from The Alan Turing Institute show female-founded companies account for less than three per cent of venture capital deals involving artificial intelligence start-ups, Sophie Milliken, founder and chief executive of Newcastle-based PR agency Moja Group, calls…

March 31, 2020

Technology

Northumbria University professor develops breath-collecting device that could change coronavirus diagnosis

An innovative breath-collecting device developed by academics at Northumbria University could revolutionise the way we diagnose diseases, including COVID-19. Northumbria University has secured regional support and funding for the next stage of product and business development of the technology, which…

June 18, 2020

Business & Economy

Teesside commercial landlord offers free accommodation to key workers

ESA Europe have been providing serviced apartments in Middlesbrough, Yarm and Hartlepool to the region’s workers since 2006. With 27 properties in their portfolio, they have been providing flexible, cost effective solutions to workers who come into the region…

March 11, 2022

Business & Economy

Square One Law to host free sessions to help firms support Ukrainian visa applications

Square One Law is hosting special information sessions to advise North East businesses how they can support Ukrainian refugees secure visas to the UK.

January 29, 2019

Business & Economy

North East firm fits UK’s first plastic packaging-free cosmetics store

Last week saw leading cosmetics retailer Lush make history by opening the UK’s first plastic packaging-free concept store – fitted by a North East company. Newcastle-based Aptus, a specialist commercial fit-out and refurbishment company headquartered at Hoults Yard, has completed…

March 31, 2020

Technology

Echo Events supports critical care nurses with free online learning portal

Echo Events and Association Management has announced a new project with the British Association of Critical Care Nurses (BACCN) to provide online educational resources for nurses being redeployed to critical care areas. As part of the scheme, Echo Events will…