A skills summit featuring Dragons' Den star Duncan Bannatyne and Roberta Blackman-Woods MP (City of Durham) attracted a wide range of private and public organisations from across the region last week.
The Bigger Picture was hosted by BBC presenter Wendy Gibson at Durham County Cricket Club's Riverside ground.
Rural businesses across North East England are being urged to help assess the impact of the economic slowdown for the region's rural economy in what researchers hope will be the biggest survey of its kind.The survey, being launched by the…
Teenagers suffer from a bad reputation when it comes to work. Nearly three-quarters of adults think they worked harder in their youth than today's teens and over a third believe most teenagers will only work reluctantly, doing the bare minimum…
New proposals have been put forward for the regeneration of a former Northumberland mining village through the creation of a ‘sustainable coastal community'.Banks Developments is submitting proposals for the first phase of a development of a new community at…
A regional employers' group has today called on local councils to play a greater role in the economic recovery of the North East.The North East Chamber of Commerce (NECC), which has more than 4,500 members, has written to chief executives…
The renaissance of northern cities has positioned them relatively well to weather the economic storm, while London could be set to bear the brunt of the recession, according to a new report published today.The Local Government Association report, called ‘
