A firm specialising in pharmaceuticals has this morning (March 14, 2012) announced that almost 500 posts were going at its facility in Fawdon, Newcastle.
Nearly 100 years of manufacturing at the Brough factory will come to an end next year because BAE Systems today (March 1, 2012) confirmed it is moving out.
Selby District Council said it would cost a “significant” amount of money to get the fire-damaged Abbey Leisure Centre open again. The centre is run by the Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust on behalf of the council.
BT said it hopes to finish the restoration of communications services by Friday (February 24, 2012) at the latest for the village of Tickton near Beverley. The Tickton Grange Hotel was just was one of the local businesses affected by cable theft.
Teesside Crown Court heard how a man from Crook made up a story that he was robbed in order to mask the fact he had lost £1,000 in cash. Alex Jones had put the money on the roof of his car before forgetting where he had left it.
Employees in Scunthorpe and Newcastle are expected to be out of work by the end of this year. That is because Lloyds Banking Group will close a number of regional sites.
A Grimsby factory will close with the loss of about 340 jobs if any alternative plan to save the site could not be found. Staff will be consulted over the planned closure which would occur by the spring.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been appointed as administrator for Petroplus Refining Teesside, which operates an oil storage site on Teesside and an external research site, plus its parent company.
Hull’s Alexandra Docks is the proposed site for a new wind turbine factory. Hull City Council last month received the planning applications which, if approved, then the plant could be open by 2014. The factory would employ 700 people making the blades and turbine units.
The Sunderland branch of Nissan has broken the record for the number of vehicles produced at a single UK car plant. It rolled out 480,485 vehicles at the North East depot in 2011, up 14 per cent from 2010.
