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A £1.6m project to help encourage entrepreneurship has been launched. The Enterprise Coaching initiative will support the development of an entrepreneurial culture. There will be training and mentoring provision and opportunities to research and test out ideas. The initiative is a joint venture funded by South Tyneside Council and the...

THE first signs that the region is emerging from the recession have appeared - but business leaders have warned the Government's recovery package must continue. The North East Chamber of Commerce has released its quarterly economic survey which shows businesses performed better here and abroad in the last quarter of 2009. But despite the good...

Bids for tenders for nine zones around territorial waters and the Continental Shelf were submitted to the Crown Estate, which owns the seabed to a distance of 22.2km off the UK coast. The opportunity attracted some of the big energy players: Southern Energy, E.On and Scottish Power, as well as Norway's Statoil, Germany's RWE and Sweden's Vattenf...

HUNDREDS of conservation projects across Scotland are to be helped by a £60 million cash injection from the Scottish Government to be announced today. It will see millions of trees planted across the country as new areas of forestry are created as part of efforts to fight climate change and protect species of wildlife. Other projects incl...

ONE person was killed and another seriously injured last night when they got out of a crashed car and were hit by a lorry on the A1. The accident happened on the northbound carriageway of the A1, one mile north of its junction with the A66, at about 10.30pm on Wednesday. It is believed the pair's car lost control in the snow and hit the centr...

Mobile phone use could protect against Alzheimer's and even reverse the disease, new research suggests. Mobile phone user Tests using mice suggest waves from mobile phones could reverse Alzheimer's Scientists cured mice with the disease by exposing them to the electromagnetic waves produced by the devices. Sticky brain deposits of a har...

“The North East is illustrating how businesses, local and central government can work together to ensure our firms benefit from the support available now and to help them come through the downturn stronger,” Trade, Investment and Small Business Minister Lord Davies said today. Thousands of firms in the region have already taken advanta...

Tenders, what Tenders IF it was a comedy called The Bridges, it would verge on the ridiculous. A Northern Ireland construction firm informs our council that it has delivered bridges over 170 metres in length at Montrose, Scotland, a much greater distance than the span of the Derwent and can do the same for us in around six weeks. All that ...

Taken from the Daily Mail on Jan 1st Doesnt it make you proud! Everyone has their own way of seeing in the New Year. Hundreds of thousands thronged central London for the traditional firework spectacular, while simultaneous displays entertained revellers across the country. For the vast majority that, and the company of good friends, was en...

Call it the year of the fire sale: Squeezed by an historic recession, U.S. companies have slashed prices more deeply and cut deals more often than at any time in the past 50 years. Microsoft reduced the price of software leasing by 26%, PepsiCo created new low-price beverages and snacks, and solar-panel manufacturers braced for a 20% drop in retail...