Insurance payouts cut Co-op's profits; Retail group John Lewis sees 50% leap in profits; Higher oil prices impacts investor sentiment on London market.
A NEW mixed use development is set to be built on a 4.25 acre site next to Hexham station in Northumberland, as landowner Network Rail aims to answer the long-running problem of how the town’s old goods yard will be developed.
CONSULTANTS have drawn up an action plan to improve a Northumberland coastal town after criticising its shopping and visitor facilities in a damning report.
FAST-GROWING surveyor and property management firm Johnson Tucker has signed for an exclusive tie-up with business bank Allied Irish Bank (GB) in Newcastle.
GATESHEAD are limping towards the end of a disappointing Co-op National League Two campaign after losing by 20 points at London Skolars for their fifth consecutive defeat.
BELEAGUERED Gateshead Thunder coach Dave Woods went on the defensive after his side slipped to a fifth consecutive Co-op National League Two defeat at the weekend.
FORMER Thunder old boy Paul Thorman is looking to put one over his former club and younger brother Neil when Gateshead make the long trip to the capital today.
WHILE you’ve got the camera in your hand, taking snaps of the summer, capture your kitty for a Cats Protection photography competition, starting on August 28, which will help raise awareness of the important work the charity does re-homing at least 60,000 cats and kittens a year.
GATESHEAD Thunder will attempt to end a damaging three-game losing streak and record only their second double of the season when they travel to York City Knights tomorrow.
British Airways posts better-than-expected results; Banks suffer as customers reclaim "unfair" charges; Co-operative Group to manufacture its own prescription drugs.
A chance encounter with Courtney Cox and David Arquette led to a bit part in horror film Scream 2 and inspired Sam Morton to pursue his dream of a career in film-making.
GATESHEAD Thunder claimed a dramatic last-gasp Co-op National League Two win over bottom club Blackpool Panthers after a first-half horror show was put right in a nail-biting second-half.
MEMBERS of The Co-operative Group across the Tees Valley will receive a share of profit payment totalling £360,000 this month, while community projects are also set to benefit by more than £13,000.
Gateshead Thunder produced their best defensive display of the season to overturn a half-time deficit and beat Yorkshire outfit Hunslet Hawks at the Thunderdome, writes Jeff Bowron.
The North-Eastern Co-op has donated £1,000 to help children and young people in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea act out the past at the village's annual summer pageant over the August Bank Holiday weekend.
Gateshead Thunder produced a storming second half comeback to turn the tables on Hunslet Hawks and secure three valuable Co-op National League Two points.
The country's biggest public sector union yesterday decided to coordinate pay campaigns in the NHS and local government, raising the prospect of a strike by millions of workers in the autumn.
Bill hamilton has been appointed managing director of Hebburn-based Variable Message Signs Limited (VMSL), the UK's leading supplier of driver information systems,
A supermarket has been accused of trying to monopolise trading in Northumberland towns and villages by buying up competing stores and closing them down.
THE Co-operative Group has appointed David Mockford as chief officer for its North Eastern and Cumbrian and Northern regions, with operational responsibility for 300 supermarkets and convenience stores.
Gateshead Thunder failed to complete a hat-trick of consecutive wins over the bottom three sides in Co-op National League Two when they lost by eight points at home to London Skolars yesterday.
Crowned the 2006 Culture and Creative category winner, TH_NK is a business that has undergone substantial growth in the competitive world of new media.
The former Northumberland coal-exporting port of Amble is not high up in the region's retail hierarchy; indeed some may argue that it is pretty close to the bottom.
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