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September 29, 2022

Business & Economy

Zenith Training and Open North Foundation strike partnership to help firms hit development goals

A training provider is partnering with a support organisation to help businesses meet targets.

April 11, 2023

Business & Economy

Furniture firm Barker and Stonehouse ‘thrilled’ as £5 million Gateshead store ‘opens new chapter’

A furniture firm says it has “opened a new chapter” in its near 80-year history after cutting the ribbon on a £5 million shop.

October 4, 2022

Business & Economy

‘Darlington is open for business’ as £8.3 million Innovation Central launches for start-ups and SMEs

A local authority has officially opened an £8.3 million business hub it says will help the firms of tomorrow “flourish”.

October 18, 2019

Business & Economy

Seaham’s Enterprise House officially opens to support smaller firms’ growth

A County Durham business hub providing a home for new and growing SMEs has officially opened its doors. Enterprise House, based on Seaham’s Grange Industrial Estate, offers firms function space, meeting rooms and social areas, as well as an on-site…

October 16, 2018

Arts & Culture

Introducing Grantley Hall, opening Spring 2019

Located at the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, near Ripon, the forthcoming Grantley Hall is tipped to be one of the UK’s most remarkable luxury hotel launches of 2019. The historic Grade II* listed property set on its own private…

July 26, 2022

Ideas & Observations

Opinion: Politics

A constant amid the change Going, going, not quite gone. Forget an Indian summer, welcome to the Johnsonian summer. Yes, it’s warm, but it’s only going to get hotter in Conservative HQ after the fire of Tory MPs – not without good…

December 6, 2019

Business & Economy

Newton Aycliffe’s Hitachi Rail secures £350 million West Coast train deal

A North East trainbuilder has secured a contract worth more than £350 million to supply 125mph intercity rolling stock to a new UK operator. Hitachi Rail will make 23 trains – comprising 135 carriages – for the Avanti West Coast…

March 2, 2021

Business & Economy

CityFibre commence full fibre rollout in North Tyneside

Digital transformation has taken a major step forward in North Tyneside this week as work begins to extend a full fibre network to almost every home and business in the area. As part of a £50 million investment from digital…