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Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) is set to create 350 jobs in the North East area in order to assist in the build of four gas platforms for the Cygnus gas field project in the southern North Sea. The deal means about 10,500 tons of fabrication work will be done in Hartlepool and will ensure work in the yard until 2015.

North Tyneside’s former Swan Hunter shipyard is set to undergo a huge, £100m-worth regeneration and re-development process, with Kier Property managing to secure the contract designed to breathe new life into the 34-acre site.

Following the successful purchase of Energy Information Centre (EIC) for £15.5m last month, South Shields utility cost management consultancy Utilitywise is set to create 150 new jobs in the area, a news report in the local media revealed.

Scottish haulage company Grampian Continental has managed to record 50 per cent of its annual sales target in six months, which put it four years ahead of its business plan and on track to hit the £20m turnover mark by 2015. According to a media report, Grampian’s success is directly related to its £70,000 investment in its first North East England base, adding to offices in Great Yarmouth, Holland and Italy, which service 500 mainly oil and gas clients across Europe and North Africa.

Teesside University has applied for planning permission for a new £20m flagship teaching and conference facility at its Middlesbrough campus, a news report reveals. The proposed new building would provide teaching space and offices, while the additional space would also allow it to reconfigure its office accommodation on campus to further develop its library, which last year underwent a £2m refurbishment.

The Department for Transport (DfT) has recently revealed the fact that it strongly supports the government decision in 2011 to choose a group of investors fronted by Siemens to make 1,140 carriages for the Thameslink line running from Brighton to Bedford. The contract, worth an impressive £1.6bn, will lead to the creation of 300 new jobs in Siemens’ Hebburn factory in South Tyneside, a news report reveals.

Around half of the mid-sized businesses in the North-East area plan to actually create more jobs over the next 12 months, a news report reveals. The results are presented in the Barclays Job Creation Survey 2013, and point out that, while the numbers are still high, there are fewer companies actually planning to hire additional staff this year.

40 businesses in the North East region have already signed up for the ’Construction4Growth’ campaign, launched in partnership with CITB-ConstructionSkills, in an attempt to convince the Government to increase investment in the sector.

Bus transport across the North East of England is likely to be severely disrupted next week, given the fact that bus company Go North East now faces three days of industrial action on 15, 18 and 23 March after staff rejected a new pay deal.

A new Marks & Spencer food store set to be opened in Gosforth will not only benefit the local community in terms of additional shopping options, but will also bring about 60 new jobs.

Yorkshire Ambulance Service workers are deciding upon whether to take industrial action over plans to take on emergency care assistants to work with paramedics.

Since the state of the economy is not exactly fantastic, any new opportunity for employment is something to be seriously taken into consideration, especially when talking about local jobs.